The phrase "was found dying" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate that someone was discovered in a weakened or dying state. For example: The elderly man was found dying on the side of the road.
She was found dying at the bottom of the steps by a local man, Thomas Brown.
A SLOW DEATH In El Cerrito, a grove of live oaks was found dying in a nature reserve in September.
Two days later Jimmie Murray, a prospective new pier leader, was found dying on the waterfront near the shanty where Cute Charlie had been killed.
Only once did the abductor seem to meet any resistance: his chance companion of that night was found dying, her neck broken.
Rodney Smith, 21, was found dying of gunshot wounds inside a vehicle at a Marathon gas station in the Madisonville neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, early Saturday.
Three nuthatches that he came upon later provided a sorry little step-by-step lesson in cause and effect: one was feeding on an elm, another was found dying, and the third was dead.
Presented Mr. Forbush with head of female eider duck that had been found dying on Nantucket with large mussel in mouth.
Trees were found dying across Europe, including in forests, nurseries and urban areas, such as parks and gardens, after an outbreak in Poland in 1992, the first time the pathogen was recorded.
Coastguards have said birds have been found dying, covered in a sticky, glue-like substance.
Walter uses a fogger to distribute his own chemical agent, this time specific to Hoffman, and soon the man is found dying.
In Germany, in 2006 only 344 wild birds, mainly swans and geese, were found dying of an HPAIV H5N1 infection despite presence of several hundred thousand individuals of these species in the same area [13].
