abandon the attempt

He abandoned his attempt to get to know David through the eyes of another boy.

After nearly two hours of determined effort, she had abandoned the attempt to sleep.

He finally abandoned the attempt to establish contact and went outside.

His health broke down and he was forced to abandon the attempt.

Finally, she abandoned her attempts at reasoning through the situation.

Growing pressure both within the Diet and outside led the government to abandon its earlier attempt to bring the investigation to a close.

After 35 hours 18 minutes in the air, they were forced to abandon the attempt and land due to fog.

Eventually they abandoned their attempts to escape and sat back in silence.

I abandoned my attempt to look like I wasn't there.

Young had to abandon the world-record attempt after 500 miles.