It made a hiss and left a faint scratch that buffing would eliminate.

Those faint scratches on the end of the barrel.

There were the faint grey scratches of slev lines and highways.

I found it, a faint but unmistakable scratch on the darkness.

There were the faint scratches his stubbled cheeks and chin had left on her skin.

An hour after she had first come into the room, he heard a quiet noise outside the door: a faint scratch and a whisper.

And look at those two faint scratches on the plaster of the wall.

He traced the faint scratches on her cheek and wondered again where she had got them.

There was a faint scratch at the door, and a soft whine could be heard without.

The faint scratch of its movement was the only sound for several minutes.