metallic sound

A metallic sound arced over the storm.

“I heard this loud metallic sound, and I thought a metal chair had fallen over on the floor. And then there was another sound, and another sound, and I realized it was a gun,” she recalled.

“The metallic sound of the enormous ship tipping over and the gurgling of the sea up the endless corridors of the cruiser.”

Or it could mean the ping! that marks the loss of memory in the underworld — described in the play as “a small metallic sound of forgetfulness.”

Martha Jaffe from Gaithersburg, Md., can’t stand the squeaky, metallic sound made when you lift up the little silver spout on a container of Morton salt.