The phrase "attempt was interrupted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where an effort or action was halted or disrupted before it could be completed.
Example: "The experiment was going well until the power outage; unfortunately, the attempt was interrupted."
Alternatives: "effort was halted" or "action was disrupted."
A half-hour passed before Justice Breyer had another chance, and now his attempt was interrupted by Justice Antonin Scalia, who said Justice Breyer was asking irrelevant questions.
If the file already exists it will not be over-written, unless the file size is larger than on disk; a smaller value is taken to mean a previous download attempt was interrupted, so it will append to the file.
Another suicide-themed film, Before I Disappear, was Shawn Christensen's masterful expanded version of his Academy Award-winning short about a guy whose suicide attempt is interrupted when his estranged sister asks him to watch her young daughter for a few hours.
After playing four straight overtime games in a row, this was a much-needed, relatively stress-free win for the Thunder, especially after Game 5, a 100-99 loss at home decided by a single Kevin Durant missed free throw attempt, one which was interrupted by much-despised referee Joey Crawford.
A first significant step was taken yesterday when Afghanistan declared that one of its most astonishing natural features will become the country's first national park - 36 years after a previous attempt to do so was interrupted by political strife and decades of war.
Her first attempt at a degree, at Montpellier University, was interrupted by the 1968 événements, in which she was, characteristically, actively involved.
The inauguration of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, also a member of the UCD, as prime minister was interrupted by the attempted military coup of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, who occupied the Cortes (February 23 , 1981 and held the government and the deputies captive for 18 hours.
However, while the speech was interrupted, they did not attempt to shut down the event.
Therefore, historians have attempted to explain how Lee's winning streak was interrupted so dramatically at Gettysburg.
Her work had little financial success and was interrupted for long periods by her attempts to earn a living.
An attempt made in 1912 by the International Commission for Weather Telegraphers was interrupted by World War I.
