"bathed by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to something (usually a person) being affected by something else. For example, "The patient was bathed by the warm sunlight."
To compare thermal stability during the first bath of newborns bathed by maternal‐child nurses in a newborn nursery with thermal stability of newborns bathed by parents at the maternal bedside.
Shannon Mahanty wrote: A few months ago I found myself sitting naked in a bath tub, being bathed by a man twice my age.
We hypothesized that late preterm infants achieve significantly improved thermoregulation when bathed by immersion tub bath compared to traditional sponge bathing.
You get bathed by sensation.
The stadium will be bathed by light".
The fins are bathed by a steady stream with constant ambient temperature and convective heat transfer.
The assemblies of fins are bathed by a steady stream with constant ambient temperature and convective heat transfer.
By day, the upstairs dining room is bathed by sunlight filtering through skylights.
The children are bathed by natural light that floods into the basement through skylights.
A boy, his right arm gone to the shoulder, was being bathed by his mother.
There is no whitewashing a painting of a white maiden being bathed by a black slave.
