make a grinding noise

The thing in the sink, you know...' He made a grinding noise.

Five made a grinding noise, like clashing gears.

The two narrow skids made a grinding noise as they rotated out of their housings in the forward hull.

Tor made a grinding noise which Kai took as affirmative though he sensed a reprimand that he would comment on the obvious.

Felldoh's paws gripped the javelins like vices and his teeth made a grinding noise as his jaw muscles bulged, the breath hissing fiercely from both his nostrils.

After what seemed a long while-though it was probably no more than ten minutes-the treads made a grinding noise, as if they had struck stone, and the vehicle came gradually to a halt.

Rohder taps keys, the screen flickers and the computer makes a grinding noise as it gets up to speed, and then the crude images are replaced with columns of figures, gold on gray.

Mr. Brown has repeatedly complained that his 1993 sedan makes a grinding noise when it downshifts from third to second gear, but his dealer, while acknowledging the problem, has been unable to fix it.

A priest gives him an orb which is supposed to hold the meaning of life but only makes a grinding noise, the man smashed it to find inexplicably it is made of strawberry jam inside.