"has been lying around" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that has been in a place for a long period of time without being used or moved. For example, "The old, dusty desk has been lying around the attic for years."
In Japan, a compound of magnesium and boron that has been lying around on chemists' shelves for decades turns out to be a superconductor with practical potential.
The director is Erik Skjoldbjaerg, who did the original Norwegian-Swedish version of "Insomnia" (much better than its American remake), but the film has been lying around a while unreleased. 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS -- Vin Diesel has gone on to other things, like making "XXX".
Called Mobilyze!, the app can also tap into the phone's GPS and accelerometer to see if a user has been lying around at home all day.
Dry your face with some tissue because your towel can contain bacteria where it has been lying around.
The De Soto panels had been lying around for a while.
And if in many cases the beats have been lying around for several years, 50's louche menace and paranoid braggadocio never get old.
Instead, concrete experience, usually in the form of catastrophic failure, forces people to search for new ideas, many of which have been lying around for quite a while.
Brooks Bros. decided to fill at Christmas time a lot of shirt orders that had been lying around since the time of the shortage, and a well-meaning official gave instructions that a card reading: "Merry Christmas-Brooks Brothers," be enclosed.
As for the name Lemony Snicket, it turns out to have been "lying around, collecting dust," having been part of a "goofy joke" among Handler and his friends that came about when he was researching right-wing groups and religious organizations for "The Basic Eight" several years ago and needed a pseudonym.
It wasn't spring, but I wanted it to be, so I made a salade niçoise (no tuna, good anchovies, plus a bit of egg yolk and anchovy in the dressing to make it thicker and fishier) and uncorked a bottle of Provençal rosé that had been lying around from last summer.
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