The phrase "attempt to enter a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to gain access to a place, system, or situation.
Example: "The security footage showed a suspect making an attempt to enter a restricted area."
Alternatives: "effort to access a" or "try to gain entry to a".
In 1996 a previous attempt to enter a team in the competition ended in failure.
We recently brought Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta into our office to talk about why his company's recent attempt to enter a market where two search engines hold 90% of the market share is not completely insane.
This was after an attempt to enter a Sheffield FA team was refused by the organisers.
After one failed attempt to enter a treatment program, Zoe was sent home with a brochure from the only local resource available to teens, a program for girls with eating disorders.
Hopefully she just hadn't realised I wasn't single, and wasn't suggesting I attempt to enter a relationship with a Mormon woman and throw myself into a lifetime of severely mentally damaging repression as per the instructions on the website she recommended.
Hopefully she just hadn't realized I wasn't single, and wasn't suggesting I attempt to enter a relationship with a Mormon woman and throw myself into a lifetime of severely mentally damaging repression as per the instructions on the website she recommended.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber killed three Afghans on Wednesday in an unsuccessful attempt to enter an American military base in eastern Afghanistan, American and Afghan officials said.
As the rightists pursued him and shouted "foreigners out," he plunged through a glass door in an attempt to enter an apartment building and bled to death.
The bomber had attempted to enter a nearby hotel but was refused entry.
A man was shot and wounded after he attempted to enter a house in Gig Harbor, Wash., Thursday afternoon.
I also ran across a "schiava moresca battezata" (baptized Moorish slave) attempting to enter a convent in Parma as a conversa.
