"in an attempt to hide" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe someone's actions or intentions in trying to conceal something. Example: The politician spoke quickly, in an attempt to hide the fact that he was avoiding answering the reporter's question.
He wore a cap and hood in an attempt to hide his disfigurement.
Her face had later been mutilated with acid and petrol, apparently in an attempt to hide her identity.
Rifat and Shelley used multiple pay-as-you-go mobile phones in an attempt to hide their contact.
The couple dragged the bodies to a shed in the backyard "in an attempt to hide them," the investigators said.
A gay bank worker who murdered his wife in an attempt to hide his sexuality has been ordered to serve at least 21 years behind bars.
Ahmed said he and his brother Yaqoub pulled blankets over their relatives and managed to shut the doors in an attempt to hide from the tanks and soldiers outside.
The committee in its closed sessions and in the upcoming interrogations of Dr. Lee by federal intelligence and law enforcement agents must explore why he engaged in a mystifying binge of copying classified material and then, once the F.B.I. got on his trail, deleted 310 files in a single day in an apparent attempt to hide what he had done.
A Minnesota judge agreed, saying that Philip Morris had engaged in an "egregious attempt to hide information" and, in a major blow to the industry, eventually forced the release of some 30 million pages of documents from industry files.
(In an Orwellian attempt to hide the nastiness, it may be known in America as an "aggregator bank").The good bank/bad bank terminology dates at least back to 1988 when America's Mellon Bank spun off its bad energy and property loans into Grant Street National Bank, which was financed with junk bonds and private equity.
The report found that the payments, which had been authorized by the chief executive, Pierre Duhaime, and were related to two projects dating back to 2009, were charged against other programs in an apparent attempt to hide them.
The first episode, "Buried Loot," features an uncredited Robert Taylor in what amounted to his first leading role for MGM — as an improbably handsome embezzler who disfigures himself in a (futile) attempt to hide his identity — and young contract players like Laraine Day, Cameron Mitchell and Van Johnson turn up with regularity.
