Closely used in a sentence

Closely in a sentence as an adverb

... I told the school officers, [and] they started watching him really closely.

For any given stock, there are people who follow the company and its markets more closely than I ever will.

This is closely related to their strong preference for maintaining the status quo across the board.

If you listen closely enough you realize that you turbulently expire a lot of air after the c in cam but dont do so in scam.

Words don't match one-to-one between languages, not even between closely cognate languages.

There is a long-time tension in the startup world between founders and VCs and, as someone who has worked closely with founders for nearly three decades, I can say unequivocally that it has not been the VCs who have tended to get the short end of the stick when the inequities arise.