Example sentences for: torii

How can you use “torii” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Beyond a second torii is the Kaguraden, Hall of the Sacred Dances.

  • Nigatsu-do hosts a spectacular fire purification festival in the second month of the lunar calendar (hence its name): the O-mizu Torii, or Water-Drawing Festival.

  • A huge arch (torii) spanning the main road marks the approach to the Heian Shrine.

  • The entrance is marked by two huge torii gates, their pillars made from 1,700-year-old cypress trees.

  • The main entrance takes you to the first sacred gateway (torii), which in Japan always symbolizes the threshold of holy ground.


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