The phrase "attempt to attach a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to connect or link something, whether it be a physical object or an abstract concept.
Example: "The technician made an attempt to attach a new component to the existing system to improve its functionality."
Alternatives: "try to connect a" or "make an effort to link a".
President Bill Clinton vetoed Mr. Bond's last attempt to attach a no-change rider to an appropriations bill, but President Bush takes a different view.
The evidence reminds us that the attempt to attach a motive to mass killing as with many individual murders is, as often as not, a mistake.
Mr. Spira concedes that the $650 billion figure is a rough estimate — an attempt to attach a number to a big problem.
Former model Beverly Bond has set up a group for black teenage girls called 'Black Girls Rock', an attempt to attach a slogan to the protest in the same way that 'Black is Beautiful' did in the Seventies.
Family life has always been punctuated by periods when Frank has been absent, staging protests around the world, so when he left home on 2 September – having explained that he would be away for a few weeks, sailing on the Arctic Sunrise to international waters north of Russia, to attempt to attach a protest pod of protesters to the side of a Gazprom oil rig – Nina wasn't unduly concerned.
As I attempt to attach a value to Uber, I have to confess that I just downloaded the app and have not used it yet.
(By some accounts, the original submarine's attempt to attach an explosive to the bottom of a British warship failed, but the device detonated near the ship and caused the British to move their vessels. Other accounts say the sub never even launched).
It's therefore a great pity that now we see attempts to attach a clause on to the new Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that will restrict abortion.
On Friday, the police unsuccessfully attempted to attach a condition to the extension of the pair's bail which would stop them talking about aspects of the case.
The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing the random drift of human affairs to some sort of unknowable but glimpsable divine motion, attempting to attach a certain grandeur to it, the delusion of meaning.
Members of Congress are attempting to attach a bill to a trans-Atlantic trade deal to block European governments from requiring the special labelling of goods produced in illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
