"make attempts" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to make an effort or try to do something. Example: He made several attempts to pass the difficult exam, but unfortunately, he still failed.
People will make attempts to find out where you live.
To Carter's credit, his Administration did make attempts at tax reform.
Still, they do make attempts to eat sensibly, even at this level.
"Last year, people would only make attempts to get on to lorries at night.
It is troubling to see politicians threatening the entertainment industry with government intervention if it doesn't make attempts to curb violence (front page, Sept. 14).
He did make attempts to wind back Whitlam's signature free education reforms – although these were successfully fought by an organised student movement.
At a press conference last night, Haarde asked Iceland's savers not to make attempts to battle the crisis by withdrawing large sums.
"We have already begun transferring embryos into four of the women and plan to make attempts with the others when they are ready," said Brannstrom.
We recognize that threat from rogue states possessing weapons of mass destruction and make attempts to minimize the threat by reducing their arsenals.
"If it really is surrounded, then according to the normal logic of things, those who are surrounded will make attempts to break out, and those who are outside will make attempts to organise a corridor for the surrounded troops to leave," Putin said.
It is believed that such spirits are greedy for the good things thus lost and that they make attempts to return to life to the peril of the living.
