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The phrase "attempted blow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is trying to deliver a physical strike or hit, often in a combative or metaphorical sense.
Example: "The boxer dodged the attempted blow and countered with a swift jab."
Alternatives: "failed strike" or "unsuccessful hit".
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Minor penalty (2 minutes) for a player who retaliates with a blow or attempted blow.
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First, we'd attempt blowing the coke up my butt through a tube with lung power.
He attempted to blow up a bus in Shoreditch, east London.
The party's "minister of defence" attempted to blow up the local CIA recruiting office with a home-made bomb.
He produced a concocted document saying Slahi attempted to blow up Los Angeles airport and recruited three of the 9/11 hijackers.
Ringo failed to notice the attack, and Taxman confessed only when he later attempted to blow up Rod Stewart.
And AQAP in Yemen attempted to blow up an American airliner landing in Detroit three years ago, on Christmas Day.
Not satisfied with this attempted knockout blow, CommonWealth appears to have lobbied the Maryland Legislature to amend the Maryland Unsolicited Takeover Act.
To appear in court today: Mohamed Osman Mohamud, the nineteen-year-old who allegedly attempted to blow up a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night.
Militants attempted to blow him up as he drove to his office, but they were spotted as they laid the explosives and fled on motorbikes.
One British would-be suicide bomber from Derby who attempted to blow up a Tel Aviv pub two years is reported to have graduated from reading Hizb literature.
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