The phrase "as I attempted to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a previous effort to clarify or convey information to someone.
Example: "As I attempted to explain, the process requires careful attention to detail to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "as I tried to clarify" or "as I sought to convey".
As I attempted to explain in the Crosswords Unclued article, I would rather go for a shorter cryptic clue if possible.
The hero of "Twilight," who, as I attempted to explain, was rescued from death on a Russian battlefield by extraterrestrials, finds himself abruptly in New York: He meets a jazz musician who tells him about chickens that talk and probably think.
After a district-wide and a school faculty meeting, while most teachers in our building were bustling to set up their classrooms for the next day, six math teachers stared at me as I attempted to explain that the overwhelmingly intimidating Excel spreadsheet before them was really no big deal, and that they could use it in their planning and teaching.
So actually, I was the ideal viewer for Inside Einstein's Mind: the Enigma of Space and Time as it attempted to explain, in simple terms, the German genius's theory of general relativity.
"Well, I like some of his ideas," he said, pulling me a little too close to him as he attempted to explain, over the music, that Trump's unfaithfulness to his wife has no impact his professional life, asking me again and again to come downstairs with him to the cigar lounge.
Last night, the Tory leader had insisted that Kirkbride was giving a "good account" of herself as she attempted to explain the complicated claims to the media.
The image of Dobriskey weeping into the track as she realised her error was agonising to watch and afterwards, in the mixed zone, tears streamed down her face as she attempted to explain what had gone wrong.
From the very beginning it was clear that the Slate teamwas going to botch the entire segment with ignorance as they attempted to explain it to the show's "old white guy".
This week, students at a talk at a central London bookshop jeered and shouted down Grayling as he attempted to explain why he was setting up his university college, which plans to award external degrees from the University of London.
At the fake marble counter, a striking young woman in a fedora stomped her pointy flats repeatedly as she attempted to explain to one of the servers that her order had been botched.
Newey admitted Vettel had made mistakes in Malaysia in terms of both ignoring the team orders in the first place and then in his wavering story afterwards as he attempted to explain why he did it.
