The phrase "aborted an attempt" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the act of stopping or terminating an effort or endeavor before it is completed.
Example: "The team aborted an attempt to launch the new product after discovering a critical flaw."
Alternatives: "canceled an attempt" or "terminated an attempt".
After securing the square on Wednesday morning, the police then retreated from the streets, and aborted an attempt to regain control of city hall, occupied by protesters.
NASA aborted an attempt to set a speed record for a nonrocket aircraft, blowing up an unmanned experimental X-43A scramjet just seconds after the plane was dropped from the belly of a B-52.
The aircraft was attempting to reach Lympne when it ran out of fuel, having aborted an attempt to land at Bordeaux Airport and other French airfields being closed due to fog.
It's the first time since 2012 that SpaceX has had to abort an attempt to dock one of its supply ships with the ISS, but the second try on Thursday morning seems to have proceeded without any issues.
He credited it with causing the couple to abort an attempt to evade him: Parsons subsequently resorted to more conventional means of obtaining redress and sued them on July 1 in the Circuit Court for Dade County.
Witnesses told The Associated Press that it appeared that Mr. Milczarek, of Round Lake, N.Y., had aborted a landing attempt, but could not clear the trees when he tried to pull the plane up.
SpaceX also aborted a launch attempt on Sunday for its Intelsat 35e mission, but it will have another launch window today at 7 37 PM EDT.
Earlier it was reported that the pilot had aborted an initial landing attempt and crashed on a second try, but Mr. Murray said that was not the case.
They ran themselves out of the third inning when Ichiro Suzuki, who had three hits, aborted a stolen-base attempt and got thrown out in a rundown.
In 2008, Mr. Collins phoned his friend Mike Parsons to demand that he and five friends abort an attempt on Cortes Bank during one of the worst Pacific storms on record.
He started to attempt, then wisely aborted, a chest bump with one of his offensive tackles, before twirling around and pumping his fist.
