The word 'mourning' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe the period or state of sorrow and sadness that follows the death of a loved one. For example, "The family was in mourning following the death of their grandmother".
In Egypt, the government showed its gratitude for Abdullah's staunch support for the current Egyptian regime by declaring seven days of mourning – four days longer than the mourning periods in the aftermath of other recent deaths.
This is a close-knit community, and it is in mourning.
Graça Machel, in mourning black and now twice widowed, reportedly sobbed at the sight of Mandela in the casket.
Her personal quest provides a glimpse of how a community brutalised by Boko Haram – and still mourning its lost sons and daughters – has rallied together as it takes tentative steps to recovery.
The Italian government declared on Friday a national day of mourning as rescue workers continued to search the seas off the Sicilian island in a desperate attempt to find any more survivors.
We should have a national day of mourning when we return to a level of inequality last experienced at about the time of armistice day in November 1918.
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos was among those mourning the damp squib of a final day.
There'll be people who attend these movies with a sense of mourning for everything good that was destroyed in the working-class culture of the 70s and early 80s.
"It does, dunnit?" There you have it: a tale of working-class social mobility, which has nothing to do with the usual clichés mourning the end of grammar schools but relies instead on hard work and a steady job.
But many remarked that the world leaders were simply joining in the South African spirit of celebrating, rather than mourning, Mandela.
Suddenly a federation, uncharacteristically born without bloodshed, found itself divided over war and stoically nation building while mourning 62,000 killed and missing – and several hundred thousand more who could never be the same.
