"stare closely" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use this phrase when you want to describe someone looking at something very intently or intensely. For example, "He stared closely at the picture, trying to find any clues that could help him solve the mystery."
In states like Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia and elsewhere across the South, changing demographics should alert us all to the need to stare more closely at how these lines are drawn -- and what a narrow sliver of voters can do to alter history.
But that's only because Walter is unflinching and, possibly, a bit depressed, which is what happens to any compassionate, reasonable person who stares too closely at the world.
A recent popular addition to this last category, which you'll be familiar with if you have a Twitter account, is people turning themselves into a rudimentary blocky form that, when stared at closely, resembles them in some way.
Everyone picked out a floret and stared at it closely.
Astral Weeks is so fragile and dream-like, you worry that if you stare at it too closely it might simply fall apart.
Patients move through the exercises in turn (shake; shake eyes closed; shake stare; nod; nod eyes closed; nod stare).
What, ultimately, would looking closely at them things we stare at, and things that stare at us all day—"reveal," they say, "about intimacy, identity, desire, and sex"?
I looked closely at it, stared at the ceiling in hope of a flash of recognition.
If five people just stare like you are nuts and don't listen, then closely examine your obsession.
As a father I've received my share of judgmental stares for perceived acts of negligence as well as for hovering over my kids too closely -- it depends on who's doing the staring.
