"attempt to expose" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You might use it, for example, in a sentence like: "The journalist attempted to expose the government's wrongdoing."
Perhaps the most persistent attempt to expose the foolishness of the belief in ghosts is Scooby-Doo.
This is a course about the practice of programming, an attempt to expose students to the development of real programs.
Three possible measures of wall roughness are studied with an attempt to expose the coupling between wall friction and material pressure sensitivity.
In an attempt to expose him to her mother without alienating her, Lena begins a dangerous game that she's ultimately unable to control.
One of the architects of black political correctness, he saw as threatening any attempt to expose black difference or weakness in front of a white audience.
Others, such as Marxist, feminist, social constructivist, and religious critics attempt to expose the bias which crept into scientific theories due to the scientists' unacknowledged background opinions.
My project Drawing Voices attempts to expose the nervous system through audio, video and metatechnologies.
Recalling past thwarted attempts to expose Don, Pete decides to let the matter drop.
Under Mubarak, a minority of judges made valiant attempts to expose and resist political interference.
One section explores the story of Harry Houdini's attempts to expose the medium Mina "Margery" Crandon.
Some patients may undergo long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy, which attempts to expose unconscious sources of suffering.
