The word "stared" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a moment when someone gives a long and intense look at something or someone. For example: "She stared at me with piercing eyes for what felt like an eternity."
Occasionally, I accompanied him on his rounds, and stared through soapy windows at what struck me as opulent luxury.
He stared directly into the camera a lot, looking the nation straight in the eye.
They have gone close to falling out of the Football League, were straitjacketed by a transfer embargo for more than a year and have stared extinction in the face.
In Sri Lanka I have stared out from an unnamed beach shack on stilts at the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean and watched fishermen haul in their catch for the day's shellfish curry.
Last Thursday in a plain house on a plain street in Ipswich, the children's grandmother, Anita, placed the card on her living room floor and stared ahead.
The players beam when they speak of the joy Darren Lehmann has brought back to the dressing room, but then this team also stared down, lipped off and mercilessly piled on top of England until they couldn't get up.
I looked at the three recruits who all just stared at the floor.
"It's nothing like Victoria Park, is it?" And she stared out into the magical darkness with me, and said, "No, Mummy, it's not".
For months following the death, Jade just sat and stared at the walls of her house, obsessing about everything she'd lost.
The blacking of the sorting office was called off and defeat stared the dismayed strikers in the face.
I slipped a sleeveless black cotton dress over my head, buttoned it, stood back and stared.
