It was lost in the sound of the television screen exploding, in the sound of metal ripping, in the sound of the ice falling.

"For so long ..." The sound of metal ripping apart, distant as another world; she looked past Horen and saw the APM burst into the passageway, the jagged tooth of the broken doorway frame scraping a line down the armored shape.

The weapons along the black stone terraces slowly tracked him as Sulu hurtled down toward them, coaxing the shuttle out of its dive by painful fractions of arc, wincing as he heard the occasional shriek of metal ripping just a little further.

The leather straps held, but the buckles gave way, the metal ripping through the leather as Hazel's more than human strength blazed up in her.

True, he does go on to use a four-letter word - to accentuate his evocation of metal ripping through skin and bones.

He heard wood ripping, metal ripping, and cast-iron ringing like a gong in his ears.

He hit the chain fence with his right front wheel and heard the sound of metal ripping.