Example sentences for: torii

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

  • But take the path at the top right of the compound and you come to the first of Fushimi-Inari’s remarkable features: its long, meandering tunnels of bright orange torii arches.

  • Inari, you will pass many subshrines and countless bright red torii both minute and massive.

  • Purchased by both companies and individuals (at vast expense) in the hope of incurring the blessings of the gods, the torii become smaller as you progress through the tunnel and begin to ascend the mountain.

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

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


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