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The answer to your question is yes, "hang close" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it in informal contexts when you want to express the idea of staying close to someone or something and/or paying close attention. For example, you might say: "Hang close, we'll leave as soon as the storm passes."
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The units hang close together along most of one wall and part of another.
Some rows hang close to the floor, others at shoulder height, others up out of reach.
Says she likes the way our SGs hang close to pond, are thus reflected in pond.
I expected Peyton Manning to slice and dice the Jets in the first half, and thought that if the Jets could hang close, they would win.
So Ansel Adams's precise and magical "Surf Sequences" (1940), with their calligraphic waves, hang close to Hiroshi Sugimoto's austere abstracted seascapes (1990), which pare air and water to tonality.
Tie up curtains in knots so they do not hang close to the floor, and move your car to higher ground.
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The placid metal allows the anodes to hang closer to the cathodes, reducing the electrical resistance and thus the power needed to run the circuit.
So for that reason they're going to hang closer to the coast, where it's safer for them.
The music hung close to the ground like a fog".
The chandelier in a neighbor's apartment hangs close to the ground, rattling with each detonation.
Rosalind Fox Solomon's portraits, hung close together in an alcove here, are more probing and more uneasy.
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