He raised his hands and stared with horror through the mask of ten blurry fingers; somewhere a tropical bird was singing or a metallic mosquito was pinging or a rusty doorhinge was swinging or a sleighbell was dinging or a telephone was ringing.
A cricket in the trees grated like a rusty doorhinge.
1994, Nicholas Shakespeare, The High Flyer, page 220:
Those lying in bed — if they remained awake — had learned to ignore the scrape as his left hand dislodged a picture; the ouch! as Zamora jarred his toe against the washstand outside Clotilda’s room; the slow squeal of the doorhinge; […]
1998, Jeremy J. Brigham, "The Glock Gun Spiel: A Case Study In Political Geography And Human Rights", Focus (American Geographical Society), Volume 45, Number 1, Spring 1998, page 9:
The Glock semiautomatic handgun was created by the Austrian manufacturer Gaston Glock, who had started out as a doorhinge manufacturer.
2000, Irene Bennett Brown, The Plainswoman, page 281:
Her pleased laughter had a sound like a rusty doorhinge.
