The phrase "lay bound" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is lying down or reclining while being physically restrained or held in place. This phrase is typically used in a more formal or poetic context. Example: The prisoner lay bound in his cell, his hands and feet shackled to the iron bed frame. In this sentence, "lay bound" conveys that the prisoner is lying down but unable to move freely due to being bound by restraints.
At 18, in a house suddenly liberated of my house-bound mother, I could masturbate freely with the door open, forgetting that, an hour away, she now lay bound to bed, hospital and death.
At 18, in a house suddenly liberated of my house-bound mother, I could masturbate freely with the door open, forgetting that, an hour away, she now lay bound to bed, hospital, and death.
He described entering the provincial office one day and finding a teen-age boy, lying bound and beaten, face down on the floor.
WASHINGTON — The toughest legislative negotiations always resemble those old movies in which a terrified and helpless damsel lies bound to the railroad tracks.
He had taken number of "disturbing videos and recordings," including one of Armitage lying dead in the bath, and another, unidentified, victim lying bound with twine on the living room floor.
In fact, the video shows that he was trying to back away from the police when they lunged at him, tackled him, strangled him, and left him lying bound and choking on the sidewalk, protesting, "I can't breathe".
He was gagged with a sword and was destined to lie bound to a rock until the Ragnarök (Doomsday), when he will break his bonds and fall upon the gods.
Much of the 'Lost Boy's' biography is replayed in his head while he lies bound and gagged on the floor of his Atlanta apartment, which is being ransacked by burglars; having fought so long and hard for his American identity, he is mute and referred to by the gangsters simply as 'Africa'.
When Gandhi began his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he "ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back".
Mr. Faison, who was black, died an hour later after a beating in the back stairwell of police headquarters by a group of officers, one of whom shot pepper spray into his nose and mouth as he lay helpless, bound by handcuffs.
It was only after the frenzied struggle, as the gunman lay unconscious and bound on the carriage floor, that the men realised just how lucky they were.
