The only sound was that of our shoes scraping against the sandy, dry floor.

The woman turned a full circle on the concrete floor with her shoes scraping in the silence.

He heard shoes scraping on the floor and then a familiar face appeared in the shaft of light from the window.

His right leg was dragging, the side of the shoe scraping on the road as they walked him.

Above his face, the shoes scraped, first one way and then another, as Vincent scanned the river.

Then the sound of shoes scraping on the gravel.

He took a cautious step forward; the sound of his shoe scraping the floor filled the emptiness for a moment.

She heard a door slam from a floor above her and the soles of shoes scraping on the stairs.

Jani took another step, making sure that her shoes scraped against the tile.

Franco heard a shoe scraping against loose rubble and saw a boy walking towards him.