diff --git a/gst/wavenc/gstwavenc.c b/gst/wavenc/gstwavenc.c
index 885c20d4f4..bb9547da63 100644
--- a/gst/wavenc/gstwavenc.c
+++ b/gst/wavenc/gstwavenc.c
@@ -22,7 +22,17 @@
 /**
  * SECTION:element-wavenc
  *
- * Format a audio stream into the wav format.
+ * Format an audio stream into the wav format.
+ *
+ * <refsect2>
+ * <title>Example launch line</title>
+ * |[
+ * gst-launch-1.0 cdparanoiasrc mode=continuous ! queue ! audioconvert ! wavenc ! filesink location=cd.wav
+ * ]| Rip a whole audio CD into a single wav file, with the track table written into a CUE sheet inside the file
+ * |[
+ * gst-launch-1.0 cdparanoiasrc track=5 ! queue ! audioconvert ! wavenc ! filesink location=track5.wav
+ * ]| Rip track 5 of an audio CD into a single wav file containing unencoded raw audio samples.
+ * </refsect2>
  *
  */
 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H