The phrase "a bid to kill" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an attempt or effort to cause someone's death or to eliminate something.
Example: "The authorities launched an investigation into the suspect's actions, which were seen as a bid to kill the rival gang leader."
Alternatives: "an attempt to kill" or "a plot to kill".
One blast was allegedly a bid to kill Pakistan's high commissioner.
The climb to 45,000ft could also have been carried out by the hijackers once they had taken control – in a bid to kill the passengers on board.
The story sees Batman confront Scarecrow, who has returned to unite his enemies in a bid to kill the Dark Knight.
Today, 39 Squadron operates a dozen MQ-7 Reaper drones over the same area – albeit from computer screens on an airbase in Nevada – in a bid to kill or capture Osama bin Laden.
These are cells from the patient's immune system that have invaded the tumour in a bid to kill it, but which failed in the task by being either too weak or too few in number.
Saudi Arabia The kingdom flooded the markets with cheap crude in a bid to kill off US shale, but now it has effectively admitted defeat; Saudi is bearing the brunt of Opec's production cut.
How distressing to read about the Weston hunter who made a $3,605 bid to kill a moose in Vermont ("On the Auction Block, Permits for Moose Hunting," Aug. 21).
One mob boss who hired a Lithuanian assassin for a failed bid to kill Crocetta was less than tolerant of his sexuality than voters, describing him in a wiretapped call as "this queer communist".
In the movie, "Valkyrie," Mr. Cruise, 45, plays Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, a disillusioned officer who was executed in 1944 after a failed bid to kill Hitler.
His chief adversary, the Democratic Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, attacked the governor's promise as nothing more than a surreptitious bid to kill programs he opposes.
But both sides were already working to blame each other for what would be the first shutdown since 2013, when Republicans closed the government in an unsuccessful bid to kill Obamacare.
