The phrase "a slight boy in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy who is thin or delicate in build, often in a specific context such as a narrative or character description.
Example: "He was a slight boy in stature, often overlooked by his peers during games."
Alternatives: "a slender boy in" or "a thin boy in".
Spread around were the artifacts of a family: crystal glasses, mementos from Nicaragua, a toy truck and a photo of her younger son at 12, a slight boy in a striped shirt.
Since Paterno was the most powerful man on campus, he was being disingenuous when he said he did his duty by reporting Sandusky to top officials after Mike McQueary told him in 2001 that he had seen the slab of an assistant coach molesting a slight boy in the shower.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt .— Down Clown Alley, in the backstage tent for Circus Smirkus, a slight boy of 14 studies his clown self in a jagged piece of mirror.
He was, he reveals, physically awkward, mortified by his family's poverty, a slight boy who was abused by his stepfather in a Little Rock, Ark., community that revered football players.
He grew into a slight boy, softhearted and sensitive.
He was a slight, sickly boy, hampered by an infected gland in his neck.
A slight Latino boy, wearing a motorcycle jacket covered in pins, held a real candle aloft; it was balanced inside a ketchup cup, to catch falling wax.
"You know, where it sags in the back?" A slight Asian boy wearing gray jeans and a gray T-shirt stepped out of a stall.
In the present study, fat mass had a significant decrease and fat-free mass had a slight increase in boys with the 12-week intervention, although nonsignificant.
However, Wade et al. [ 71] reported a decline in SRH from grade 7 to grade 9 to grade 11 and a slight increase (in boys) or no change (in girls) from grade 11 to 13.
A slight, sallow boy made the first recording.
