The phrase "attempts at leaving" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts or endeavors to depart from a situation, place, or relationship.
Example: "Despite several attempts at leaving the party, she found it difficult to say goodbye to her friends."
Alternatives: "efforts to leave" or "tries to depart".
The 12 boys trapped in a cave in northern Thailand are being trained in how to breathe with scuba equipment as they prepare for a possible attempt at leaving the cave.
It packs a strangely revealing melodramatic strain, from a backstory — revealed in bits and pieces throughout and then, at the end, in a torrent — that rescues the film from the overbearing monotony of its flat attempts at humor, leaving a melancholic afterglow.
It packs a strangely revealing melodramatic strain, from a backstory revealed in bits and pieces throughout and then, at the end, in a torrent that rescues the film from the overbearing monotony of its flat attempts at humor, leaving a melancholic afterglow.
In reality, the building's vastness has consistently defeated any attempts at upkeep, leaving it, Young notes, in "a state of perpetual crumbling," a very attractive idea for an artist whose work has consistently probed the seams of the law looking for the kinds of snags and frays that might allow a productive unraveling of its supposedly inviolable fabric.
Sometimes, my attempts at conversation leave me looking silly, but other times, they have helped me tremendously.
His first attempts at jogging left him dizzy after a few hundred yards, but now he is running marathons.
But the extravagances of Louis's court, the huge expense of decades of warfare and the defeat of attempts at reform left monarchy and government weakened by the end of Louis's reign.
Attempts at connection leave you with the reminder that so few CAN feel you because you are cut from a different cloth.
This attempt at secrecy left the field open for gossip and allegations of a cover-up.
