The phrase "attempt to extract a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to obtain or retrieve something, often in a technical or analytical context.
Example: "The researchers made an attempt to extract a sample from the core of the ice."
Alternatives: "try to obtain a" or "effort to retrieve a".
She would wear a wire and attempt to extract a confession or an incriminating statement.
Thrift could be bluffing, in an attempt to extract a better offer from the Yankees.
Yu Wensheng said security agents were likely to have isolated his colleague in a small hotel room in an attempt to extract a false confession.
"You have now engineered an outcome whereby I require your cooperation to implement the requisitioned changes without the need for wasted costs and are using this in an attempt to extract a profitable exit from the company.
She was not seen again for nearly three weeks, and later testified that she was held in secret locations, where she was tortured in an attempt to extract a false confession.
In the early 2000s, under the former chief executive Mark Miles, the ATP deployed many of the same arguments in an attempt to extract a greater percentage of revenue.
Battle-hardened samurai of the haiku take instruction from Zen masters before they attempt to extract an odd syllable out of their hard-won 17 to go in the index.
The lead interrogator, a brawny man with sunglasses pushed back on top of his knitted kippa, attempted to extract a confession to two counts of attempted murder.
It attempts to extract a set of minimal diagnostic rules encoding the preference pattern of decision-making by domain experts.
To address this gap in the research, this paper attempts to extract a domain-aware trust network to achieve more accurate trust propagation.
A by-now-psychotic Becky pinned the call on Tracy and attempted to extract a confession by atomising Chez Barlow with a sledgehammer conveniently lifted from Owen's unlocked van.
