The number showed a slight acceleration from the June rise of four- tenths of 1 percent.

There was the slightest acceleration of his heart, a mild and even exhilarating constriction of the chest.

A steady throb of motors gave a slight acceleration toward the aft deck.

The slight centripetal acceleration activated long-dormant chemical and biological processes.

This slight acceleration is described by a number called the cosmological constant.

There was a slight acceleration, like you would feel in a slow elevator.

Jared could tell by his breathless silence, by the slight acceleration of his pulse.

There was no response save a slight acceleration in his breathing.

The ship was under slight acceleration, just enough to hold her slippers to the carpet.

He noted resistance, a flicker that might have been Loop-phenomenon, and a slight acceleration of respiration.