Salient used in a sentence

Salient in a sentence as a noun

I can skim an article / blog post and glean most of the salient points.

The switch was "not salient" on the real name board that always used real names.

Considering it probably wouldn't be any more legal the slower way, I can't see how that question is salient.

As a geologist in the oil industry, this is one of the few articles I've seen on peak oil that absolutely nails the salient points.

It just so happens that this conference was two weeks before her annual review, which is salient because Ashley attempted to blackmail Bob.

[Edit to add: My description of management fees is slightly simplified and ignores salient things like the fact that they recur annually.

Salient in a sentence as an adjective

Full quote: "github is a total ghetto of **** commit messages and unreadable and unusable pull requests"Conveniently left out the part most salient to Linus' argument?

Other bits that I found salient from the ruling, on patent vs. copyright: Much of Oracles evidence at trial went to show that the design of methods in an API was a creative endeavor.

A salient bit: [Eric] Grosse echoed comments from other Google officials, saying that the company resists government surveillance and has never weakened its encryption systems to make snooping easier as some companies reportedly have, according to the Snowden documents detailed by the Times and the Guardian on Thursday.

The salient quote from Greenwald's article on this:They completely abused their own terrorism law for reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism: a potent reminder of how often governments lie when they claim that they need powers to stop "the terrorists", and how dangerous it is to vest unchecked power with political officials in its name.

The 3Tap business model may or may not have withstood this legal challenge but the salient fact here is that CL faced a lot of uncertainty on the legal issues involved, meaning that it might ultimately have lost on its claims and further meaning that 3Tap's business model would serve as a ready-made way for third parties to gain unfettered access to the CL data, at least until CL were able to obtain a preliminary injunction in the lawsuit or an ultimate victory on its claims.