How to Use Shinto in a Sentence

Shinto

noun

• How much of that is, ‘This is formal, capital-S Shinto,’ and how much of it is just Shinto-y?
  — oregonlive, 30 Apr. 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
• 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
• 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
• Later that season, it was revealed that Stanford had become a Shinto monk.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 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 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
• 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
• 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
• So the kitchen god, in both Japanese culture and in my story, is a combination of one of the countless gods in Shinto folk belief and the mystical side of Buddhism, represented by the mountain ascetics of the Yamabushi tradition.
  — Dennis Zhou, The New Yorker, 3 July 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
• Her gospel draws on the individual impulse to tinker, prevalent in early America and throughout its history, and joins it with an appreciation for animate objects developed in her five years as a miko, or shrine maiden, at a Shinto temple.
  — Coco Krumme, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Her relationship with Akihito initially came under scrutiny, as her family was Roman Catholic, while the imperial family is historically Shinto.
  — Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• During the 19th century, the newly imperialistic government promoted Shinto, the country’s Indigenous animist tradition, over Buddhism.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 30 Dec 2024