The phrase "a slight motion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small or subtle movement in various contexts, such as physical actions or gestures.
Example: "She made a slight motion with her hand to indicate that she wanted to speak."
Alternatives: "a small movement" or "a gentle gesture."
Prunty shook his head, a slight motion, hardly a movement at all.
A slight motion of the emitter clock relative to the absorber clock produces enough frequency shift to destroy resonance or detune the pair, so absorption cannot occur.
First, in our experience, there is a slight motion conceivable within the lung parenchyma even in so-called breath-hold, increasingly if prolonged, which inevitably influences perfusion values.
In addition, even though custom-fit features are created, a slight motion between the injured arm surface and the cast is common regardless of the type of the cast application.
Manual palpation revealed that a slight motion between the transverse processes in any animals considered as radiographic union in both groups.
Solid-state NMR experiments on Meta I and changes in electron density in TM6 on the side facing retinal in the Meta I electron crystallography structure are consistent with a slight motion of TM6 which can be described as rotation, but not outward movement.
With the improving resolution of modern PET scanners, any slight motion during the scan can cause significant blurring and loss of resolution.
As the monitor records even slight motion as a nonzero count, a sustained 20-minute period of zero counts is considered a non-wearing period, and missing data will be imputed using the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm as described previously [ 46].
It's like a slight uplifting motion as you move back and forth.
It wouldn't take long before some slight motion of a stranger would enrage him; another assault, another admission, another medication.
The old man put arthritic fingers to the lid of the tin and pulled carefully, with a slight twisting motion, a twisting that the apprentice thought seemed odd for a rectangular tin, and yet the lid eased off anyway.
