The shape of her name, sharp as metal filings, gets caught between your teeth even as you try to force it out in a shout. (bookbrowse.com)
Think of Naomi as a magnet, and the various people she meets and interacts with as a pile of metal filings on a desk; she sweeps over all of them and rearranges things without actually picking anything up. (theatlantic.com)
When I look up at them there is a small commotion in my bones, as the ashes of dead stars that house my marrow rise up like metal filings toward the magnet of their living kin. (religion-online.org)