The phrase "hung close to" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you wish to express that something is positioned near/next to something else. For example: "A picture of his parents hung close to the window".
The music hung close to the ground like a fog".
But even as Ali's name hung close to the top of every story told about Frazier, it fell behind for a change.
The drone hovered into view, clearly displaying the flag, which hung close to the pitch before being grabbed by the Serbia defender, Stefan Mitrovic.
In one instance a gun was waved near a prisoner, and in another a noose was hung close to a detainee.
Since he had made a painting, The Reaper, which hung close to Picasso's Guernica at the Spanish pavilion in Paris in 1937, and had openly supported the Spanish republic, he was in some danger after 1939.
Alabama State (22-9), makits its first appearance in the tournament after winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference title, hung close to a sloppy and seemingly uninspired Michigan State team in the first half.
Samples of satin slips, multihued tights, knee-highs and girdles of varying lengths were hung closer to the ground.
The chandelier in a neighbor's apartment hangs close to the ground, rattling with each detonation.
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.
It hangs close to Warhol's orange-and-green Richard M. Nixon (titled "Vote McGovern") and Jim Dine's rouged and lipsticked Johnson and Mao, revealing a strategic alliance between Pop and psychedelia.
