"lying bare" is correct and usable in written English.
You may use it to describe something that is exposed or laid open to view. For example, "The fields were lying bare, empty after the harvest had been completed."
Then he turns to him and says, "You should go and see about breakfast now," but he seems to forget that the boy doesn't belong there as Jack stays with him on the wooden path that leads up from the beach, past the pool, where young women smelling of coconut oil are lying bare-backed under the thatched canopy of the courtyard.
The first thing to note is that Armstrong was apologising for something that came very low down on anybody's list of the things people working for his charity might want an apology for, such as lying bare-faced to everyone for the past 10 years or so, or putting his cancer charity in an impossible position of having to defend him regardless for the same amount of time.
These figures lay bare the extreme pressure across the system".
Good intentions sometimes lay bare a kind of chummy condescension.
The postings lay bare the elaborate pathos of teenagedom today.
For a few days the grass lay bare again.
Let me lay bare the lie that suggests that the HRA is a "criminals' charter".
In his fiction, Maugham often sought to lay bare the hypocrisies of his characters.
He described his purpose as to lay bare "the economic law of motion of modern society".
For an organization that extols trustworthiness, these files lay bare an appalling dissonance.
