The phrase "attempt to throw off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an effort to confuse, mislead, or distract someone from a particular focus or intention.
Example: "He made an attempt to throw off the investigators by providing false information."
Alternatives: "try to mislead" or "attempt to distract".
By then, Clijsters was varying her trajectories and spins in an attempt to throw off Li's rhythm.
Republicans responded with fury to this studied attempt to throw off the legacy of the Reagan and Bush years.
A later attempt to throw off the vassalage brought another Delhi army; Ramachandra was imprisoned but was later released and remained loyal to Delhi until his death.
Sanders called single-payer healthcare "as American as apple pie" – an attempt to throw off single-payer reform's negative reputation as "socialized medicine".
In an immediate departure from his predecessor, English quoted a line of poetry in his first press-conference as prime minister, perhaps in an attempt to throw off his reputation as lacking in leadership pizzazz.
In 2006, I sat in a splendid gilded room with the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yushchenko, and listened as he told me that the Orange Revolution — Ukraine's first attempt to throw off its corrupt leadership — was failing, thanks to Russian pressure, and why it wasn't his fault.
ʿAlī Bey, (born 1728, Abkhasia, Caucasus [now Abkhaziya, Georgia] died May 8 , 1773 near Ṣāliḥiyya, Egypt), Mamlūk governor of Egypt under Ottoman suzerainty who attempted to throw off the Ottoman Turkish rule.
1728 Abkhazia, Georgia May 8 , 1773near Salihiyya, Egypt ʿAlī Bey, (born 1728, Abkhasia, Caucasus [now Abkhaziya, Georgia] died May 8 , 1773 near Ṣāliḥiyya, Egypt) Mamlūk governor of Egypt under Ottoman suzerainty who attempted to throw off the Ottoman Turkish rule.
In its editorial and its marketing, the paper is attempting to throw off its old-fashioned image as the preferred buy of your Auntie Winnie from Goring-By-Sea.
Every aspect of those aspirations – the attempts to throw off oppressive or repressive forces, both external and internal; attempts to open the mind and to engage politically; the commitment to creativity as a potent form of revolutionary thinking and action – all of this is still central to our sense of mission and purpose.
Utterly subservient to Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace, who was attempting to throw off Austrasian control, Chilperic fled to Aquitaine in 719 after being defeated by Charles Martel, Austrasian mayor of the palace at Amblève in the Ardennes (716) and Vinchy, near Cambrai (717).
