The phrase "a spasm that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden, involuntary contraction of muscles or a similar sudden reaction in various contexts, such as medical or emotional situations.
Example: "She experienced a spasm that caused her to lose her balance momentarily."
Alternatives: "a contraction that" or "a twitch that".
Struggling then to free herself — "No, no!" she cried — she threw up in a spasm that spattered over Binny's almost new blue-and-silver shoes.
The possible break in the case came after a particularly violent weekend in Newark, a spasm that has undermined Mayor Cory A. Booker's repeated pledges to whittle away at the intractable murder rate.
The narrator's daughter ends up on top of her, and the mother admits to a "spasm" that her daughter mistakes for a sob.
It was coined around the middle of the last century by the Scottish golfer Tommy Armour, a sufferer, who defined it as "a brain spasm that impairs the short game".
That was not true for Lindley, who woke up with a neck spasm that required treatment before she teed off.
It followed George North's opener, created by Louis Picamoles's surge into the 22 and Dylan Hartley's deft pass (something that the hooker was to repeat at the end of the half in his final act before retiring with a back spasm that is not expected to keep him out of Saturday's rather more demanding encounter at Saracens), and the second claimed by the France No8 after a driving lineout.
The drug was inadvertently injected into her artery, where it caused an arterial spasm that led to gangrene.
Meek arrived as the period's foremost independent producer with John Leyton's summer 1961 smash, 'Johnny Remember Me', an eldritch spasm that epitomised the heightened melodrama of teenage emotions.
In the paper, the five authors, led by John F. Oates, an anthropologist from Hunter College in Manhattan, conclude, "The extinction of Miss Waldron's red colobus may be the first obvious manifestation of an extinction spasm that will soon affect other large animals in this region unless more rigorous protection is applied immediately".
A hit from a Taser causes an instant muscular spasm that can disable any attacker, no matter how determined.
One subject had a mild right carpal spasm that resolved rapidly with normal breathing.
