diff --git a/R/spq_select.R b/R/spq_select.R
index 693276b..518e784 100644
--- a/R/spq_select.R
+++ b/R/spq_select.R
@@ -6,8 +6,19 @@
 #' @export
 #' @examples
 #'
-#' query = spq_init()
-#' spq_select(query, count = n (human), eyecolor_label, haircolor_label)
+#' spq_init() |>
+#'   spq_prefix(prefixes = c(dct = "http://purl.org/dc/terms/")) |>
+#'   spq_add(spq('?lexemeId dct:language wd:Q1860')) |>
+#'   spq_mutate(lemma = wikibase::lemma(lexemeId)) |>
+#'   spq_filter(str_detect(lemma, '^pota.*')) |>
+#'   spq_select(- lemma)
+#'
+#' spq_init() |>
+#'   spq_prefix(prefixes = c(dct = "http://purl.org/dc/terms/")) |>
+#'   spq_add(spq('?lexemeId dct:language wd:Q1860')) |>
+#'   spq_mutate(lemma = wikibase::lemma(lexemeId)) |>
+#'   spq_filter(str_detect(lemma, '^pota.*')) |>
+#'   spq_select(lemma)
 spq_select = function(.query = NULL, ..., .spq_duplicate = NULL){
   if (!is.null(.spq_duplicate)) {
     original_spq_duplicate = .spq_duplicate
diff --git a/man/spq_select.Rd b/man/spq_select.Rd
index 858dc57..d0a19ab 100644
--- a/man/spq_select.Rd
+++ b/man/spq_select.Rd
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ Select (and create) particular variables
 }
 \examples{
 
-query = spq_init()
-spq_select(query, count = n (human), eyecolor_label, haircolor_label)
+spq_init() |>
+  spq_prefix(prefixes = c(dct = "http://purl.org/dc/terms/")) |>
+  spq_add(spq('?lexemeId dct:language wd:Q1860')) |>
+  spq_mutate(lemma = wikibase::lemma(lexemeId)) |>
+  spq_filter(str_detect(lemma, '^pota.*')) |>
+  spq_select(- lemma)
+
+spq_init() |>
+  spq_prefix(prefixes = c(dct = "http://purl.org/dc/terms/")) |>
+  spq_add(spq('?lexemeId dct:language wd:Q1860')) |>
+  spq_mutate(lemma = wikibase::lemma(lexemeId)) |>
+  spq_filter(str_detect(lemma, '^pota.*')) |>
+  spq_select(lemma)
 }