The phrase "attempt to lend" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to provide assistance or support, typically in a financial or resource context.
Example: "Despite the challenges, we will make an attempt to lend our support to the community project."
Alternatives: "try to provide" or "make an effort to offer".
Include some specifics to attempt to lend credibility to the claim, but leave a hole or two.
It seems bogus and misplaced, as does the attempt to lend exultancy to a similarly restrained version of Elbow's "Mirrorball" by the imposition of industrious brass and strings.
All they have done is attempt to lend an aura of authenticity by giving the anglicised name a local sounding pronunciation.
What's new is this genre's astonishing frankness, its wide popularity and its active, earnest attempt to lend troubled fans a helping hand.
Once again, his skills as a journalist have been exploited by Isis in an attempt to lend credibility to propaganda films.
It also raises the prospect that Trump, who is pro-Brexit, will attempt to lend political weight to the leave campaign.
In recent years there have been attempts to lend greater legitimacy to the group.
Ed Balls should in truth have chosen the tango, in memory of the many truly decent bites he took out of the Tories while attempting to lend some heft to Ed Miliband's opposition.
They represent attempts to lend dignity to their surroundings, and that -- assuming the ceiling doesn't cave in -- may be one of the most serious and traditional functions of architecture.
Radio 4 in particular has become indelibly stained with a kind of self-ironising mateyness that seems to have started on PM and Broadcasting House and which is now everywhere, with presenters' mannered, manufactured goofiness attempting to lend to what they say some kind of appearance of the real that they and their programmes so plainly lack.
Luke Davies's screenplay attempts to lend the men's brief, uneventful acquaintance some deeper significance: Dean learns that there is no place like home, and Stock learns that he should stay in New York and be a father to his son.
