The phrase "a sob that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific instance or type of sobbing, often in a narrative or emotional context.
Example: "She let out a sob that echoed through the empty room, revealing her deep sorrow."
Alternatives: "a cry that" or "a weep that".
And so when she got the word, by e-mail at her home here, she let out a shriek and a sob that scared her parents.
Click here to listen If Olsen - who has toured and recorded with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - sings about the futility and finality of existence, she does so with gusto and verve, and a crack in the voice, a sob, that has seen her compared to Loretta Lynn.
Now that paper versions of journals have been rendered obsolete in favour of online publications, the only effect of a SOB that remains is to hamper scientific progress, as shown by the very limited number of proper tests of one of the most widely applied behaviour change methods.
The hint of a sob that inflected his rendition of "Come Rain or Come Shine" took the song to an uncharacteristically introspective place.
At this point, Beard felt himself overtaken by a powerful and unfamiliar emotion that tightened his throat and forced from his chest a sob that he was powerless to contain.
He acknowledged that this was "a difficult time" and went on to announce, in a voice that came near to breaking into a sob that "the President of the United States will meet with various members of the bi-partisan leadership of Congress here at the White House early this evening.
Performing a medley of "Come Rain or Come Shine," "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?," Ms. Eder unfurled a machine-tooled sob that suggested a technically flawless hybrid of Celine Dion and the mature Barbra Streisand.
The other, much larger voice, into which she suddenly breaks like a horse leaping out of the starting gate, is an emotionally unstrung cry with a built-in sob that she freely uses as a kind of spur.
It's not that Ms. Eder's singing lacks emotion; she has a built-in sob that she wields with a machinelike precision.
Ike's father straightens his shirt, takes a step toward the door, seems to be leaving, and then, again unexpectedly, "wheeled back around and let loose with a single whooping sob that should have been heard all through the building but was swallowed by the acoustically tiled walls: specifically installed, Iacone had once been told, in anticipation of moments such as this".
This is quite a different story than what Gardner has been telling talk-radio audiences, that he decided to jump in the Senate race when he found out his health-insurance premium would jump due to Obamacare -- a sob story that's been debunked.
