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The phrase "attempted to capture" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing an effort to seize, record, or represent something, whether literally or metaphorically.
Example: "The photographer attempted to capture the beauty of the sunset in her latest series of images."
Alternatives: "sought to capture" or "tried to capture".
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One can't help contrast it with the earlier import of a musicalised Spring Awakening which attempted to capture the raw agony of youth, only to dwindle into sentimentality.
Man has always attempted to capture the ephemera of food.
His Arcades Project attempted to capture an "associative" view of history using a montage of quotations.
In September the British forces attempted to capture Fort McHenry, which guarded Baltimore harbour.
In all her work she attempted to capture a symbolic, yet intimate view of her subjects.
Some attempted to capture the images of the people in lyrical prose.
Rather, Ciardi attempted to capture the feeling of the original in a tense and economical modern-verse idiom.
In November 1933 police in Dallas, Texas, attempted to capture them near Grand Prairie, but they escaped.
The film, set in "a half-destroyed yet intellectually alive postwar London", attempted to "capture the 'out-of-body', fugitive experience of an artist in performance", said Charlotte.
As the psychological novel developed in the 20th century, some writers attempted to capture the total flow of their characters' consciousness, rather than limit themselves to rational thoughts.
His early photographs taken outside the studio were street scenes that attempted to capture movement among street vendors, musicians, chimney sweeps, and the like.
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