How to Use Shinto in a Sentence

Shinto

noun

• At 100, she was said to be still ascending the stone steps of her local Shinto shrine without a cane.
  — Martin Fackler, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
• Later that season, it was revealed that Stanford had become a Shinto monk.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024
• Orochi’s conduct earned him the disdain of even the Shinto trickster god, Susanoo, who formed a plan of revenge.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• The beverage was initially brewed in Shinto shrines, and has held a sacred place in the country’s culture.
  — Tokyo Halfie, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2023
• Or incorporate rope and hemp, which Yoshida says can commonly be found in Shinto shrines.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Jan. 2025
• The ancient records don’t give a name, and Shinto is a form of animism that believes in countless gods that lie behind the forces of nature.
  — Martin Fackler, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• Her method evoked the Shinto principle that objects can be inhabited by a kami, a spirit.
  — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
• Torii gates are iconic structures that mark the boundary between the everyday and the sacred at Shinto shrines across Japan.
  — Arata Yamamoto, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
• How much of that is, ‘This is formal, capital-S Shinto,’ and how much of it is just Shinto-y?
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 2023
• As the sun rose, the vermilion paint that decorates most Shinto shrines to ward off evil and misfortune began to shine dazzlingly.
  — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
• The city is famous for its Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines and large population of deer that roams free in the city’s parks and historic sites.
  — Natalie B. Compton and Julia Mio Inuma, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• Torii gates, structures found at the entrance of Shinto shrines across Japan, symbolize the transition from the mundane to the sacred.
  — Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 14 Nov. 2024
• From the world’s biggest and busiest fish market, to a sushi bar tucked away under the railroad tracks, to octopus on a grill outside a Shinto shrine, food is everywhere.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• The writers crafted an arc in which his character, Stanford Blatch, moved to Japan and became a Shinto monk.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2024
• She was inspired by the Japanese Shinto religion, which teaches that objects have spirits and must be respected as such.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
• The letter informed her that after traveling over to Japan on business, Stanford decided to stay and become a Shinto monk.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• Buddhist monks and temples continued to provide funeral and ancestral rites; people continued to pray at Shinto shrines.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Anyone who’s been to Japan knows that virtually every neighborhood in every town has at least one Buddhist temple and one Shinto shrine.
  — Hanya Yanagihara Kyoko Hamada, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Take Japan, where the erosion of Shinto and Buddhist death rituals has coincided with an epidemic of overwork and suicide.
  — Devi Brown, Time, 24 Apr. 2025
• His character was ultimately written off in season 2, with Stanford going off to become a Shinto monk in Kyoto.
  — EW.com, 13 Jan. 2025
• The nearby Meiji Jingu Shinto shrine was another urban oasis surrounded by 173 acres of woods right in the middle of the city.
  — Helen Schulman, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2024
• In Shinto belief, spirits—kami—are not only connected to the shrines constructed in their honor, but also linked to objects, landscapes, and other earthly phenomena.
  — Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
• Sending his character to Japan in season one to work with a TikTok star client, ultimately leading him to become a Shinto monk in Kyoto, felt bizarre.
  — Marc Berman, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• Each gate is donated by individuals and businesses, a tradition that has lasted for centuries to honor Inari, the Shinto god of rice and prosperity, among other things.
  — Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
• According to Shinto mythology, the creature resembled a giant snake-dragon hybrid, embodying pain, sorrow and destruction.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2024
• Sumo is regarded as Japan’s national sport, or most sacred sport, and many of the ritual elements are connected to Shinto, Japan’s indigenous religion.
  — Stephen Wade, Denver Post, 28 May 2025
• Rooted in Confucian ethics, Zen Buddhism and Shinto beliefs, this code emphasizes loyalty, self-sacrifice and duty to protect others.
  — Ronald S. Green, The Conversation, 24 Mar. 2025
• Or visit another popular destination, the Yasaka-jinja Shinto shrine, with its colorful vermillion gate and outdoor sanctuary where worshippers pull on dangling cords to ring large bells.
  — Ingrid Abramovitch, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2023
• Rooted in the Buddhist and Shinto belief that water is a means of purifying oneself, onsen bathing dates back to the sixth century and remains a regular self-care practice for Japanese people today.
  — Anna Haines, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
• As for spirituality and fitness, Mangione called for the revival of traditional Japanese activities such as onsen (hot springs), the Shinto religion and karate.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024