The phrase "an attempt to breed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to produce offspring or cultivate specific traits in animals or plants.
Example: "The researchers conducted an attempt to breed a new variety of disease-resistant crops."
Alternatives: "an effort to reproduce" or "a trial to cultivate".
We went to war on the issue of national security and later, an attempt to breed democracy.
The breed was created by the German zoologist brothers Heinz Heck and Lutz Heck in an attempt to breed back the tarpan.
One of these exiles, a black-browed albatross, returned to gannet colonies in Scotland for many years in an attempt to breed.
Hodgson is concerned about the ethics of production in porn and is aiming to create a self-regulatory body to monitor abuses and bad practice within the industry – it's an attempt to breed a culture of Fairtrade fucking, essentially.
Reading on, I realised that the people behind Elite Daily aren't content with being careerist sociopaths themselves, but are churning out loads of "motivational self-help" articles in an attempt to breed an army of ruthless, immoral, millionaire loners.
When the Hecks first bred their version of the aurochs, they were looking primarily for domestic cattle that looked vaguely aurochs-y in an attempt to breed a pre-industrial super cow that might yield more meat, and then went from there.
He was captured by the Grenadier Guards and brought to England, bought by Lt Col John Julius Angerstein, and spent a peaceful old age after an unsuccessful attempt to breed from him.
This bonus baby was the last grandchild in my family, a last attempt to breed some frivolity and high-spiritedness into our somber Anglo line, and we seem to have succeeded.
The bullet-shaped PAL-V, which looks like it sprang fully formed from the head of Ian Fleming, is the latest attempt to breed a mythical mutt: the flying car.
With Luddick's assistance, Lara infiltrates the Cabal's headquarters, the Strahov, and in the process accidentally frees the Proto-Nephilim, the Cabal's unsuccessful attempt to breed a new Nephilim species.
