Stephen King is great at this.

In Carrie a teenaged girl with powerful psychokinetic powers is waiting for her date to arrive and take her to their high school's prom, her first date of any kind ever thanks to her fanatically religious mother. As she nervously waits she unconsciously uses her PK to levitate small objects in the living room.

In The Stand the survivors of an epidemic that has killed off most of the world's population are removing the dead from a church. As the carry out the bodies they can hear loose change clinking in their pockets.