From the other side I could hear a faint scraping sound.

There was a faint scraping sound, followed by a click.

He prepared to lie down again, when a faint scraping sound caught his ear.

She heard the faint scraping of the crutches as he quietly retreated down the corridor.

A faint scraping sound from below reminded him that the construct must have had an operator.

I will not put up with it. A faint scraping noise caused him to glance upward.

Then a very faint scraping noise broke the stillness, and presently the patch of moonlight on the floor was darkened.

Then a faint scraping.

There was a grunt, and then a faint scraping noise, but it was hard to decipher through the persistent whispering of the cavern wind.

There were 40 of them, maybe 50, digging through the garbage that had been put outside, making a faint scraping sound with their claws.