The phrase "an attempt to fool" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort made to deceive or trick someone.
Example: "His explanation was clearly just an attempt to fool the audience into believing his story."
Alternatives: "a ploy to deceive" or "an effort to mislead".
They fled and concocted an alibi in an attempt to fool the police.
It looks like a lie; they are only smiling in an attempt to fool themselves that their lives aren't horrible.
The N.B.A. instituted the antiflopping rules this season, to discourage players from theatrically exaggerating contact in an attempt to fool referees.
On the Web, companies "cloak," which means, among other things, that they disguise the real content of their sites, in an attempt to fool Google into thinking that a page is relevant to a search.
Jason Yarde points to The X Factor phenomenon as an attempt to fool the public that music is really still only about "the big ballad with a big melody – with big money and big recording deals following it".
Some scientists maintain that an attempt to fool the body by divorcing the sweet taste from the calories that would normally be in a sweet food creates a craving for real calories.
Even though Zhao and his colleagues are engaged in an elaborate attempt to fool a blind person, the joke is often (and ultimately) on them, and their intentions are almost absurdly selfless.
Two news reports speculated the blue color might have been an ineffective attempt to fool the chemical reagent field tests, which give a blue color when tested positive for methamphetamine.
Two news reports speculated the blue color might have been an ineffective attempt to fool the chemical reagent field tests, which give a blue colour when tested positive for methamphetamine.
Prison officials found the inmates' beds inside the 170-year-old Clinton Correctional Facility stuffed with clothes on Saturday morning in an apparent attempt to fool guards making their rounds.
A surgical attempt to fool Mother Nature is not an admission of character weakness.
