The phrase "acquaintances tried" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts made by acquaintances in a particular context or situation.
Example: "My acquaintances tried to convince me to join them for the trip, but I had other commitments."
Alternatives: "friends attempted" or "people I know tried".
It is difficult for journalists voluntarily to shut their mouths, and yet there was no question.Her friends and acquaintances tried to make sense of the sudden absence of someone whose role had been to keep them all talking to each other.
It was the story of Kathy Boudin – the former 1960s radical convicted of the killing of a guard when she and an armed gang of acquaintances, tried to rob a Brink's truck in 1981, in Nyack, New York – and of her extended family.
Make acquaintances: Try making new friends.
If they are acquaintances, try to get to know them better.
An energetic lady of our acquaintance tried to buy a pedometer to see just how much ground she was covering in a week or month.
In one, a woman possessed by the vengeful spirit of a dead acquaintance tried to kill her husband with a butcher knife.
Baumgartner, who is from a map dot in the Upper Peninsula called Iron River, Mich., sometimes wears his Olympic ring on the job, and so when an acquaintance tries to tell him how famous he is, he points to the concrete stuck to the ring.
I finally settled into a 25-cent video poker machine in the middle of a long row, breaking one of the rules passed on to me by a slots-crazed acquaintance: try for a machine on the end, because it gets more traffic and thus has more cash to dispense.
An acquaintance, trying to reach me through an old email, laughed recently at my newest ".edu" incarnation, Columbia.
If they are just an acquaintance, try doing something less harsh.
Or, option a script from a different writer, maybe a friend or acquaintance trying to get started in the industry.
