diff --git a/base/docs/basedocs.jl b/base/docs/basedocs.jl
index e28b3a21659a8..a142ecffdb732 100644
--- a/base/docs/basedocs.jl
+++ b/base/docs/basedocs.jl
@@ -937,11 +937,14 @@ expression, rather than the side effects that evaluating `b` or `c` may have.
 See the manual section on [control flow](@ref man-conditional-evaluation) for more details.
 
 # Examples
-```
+```jldoctest
 julia> x = 1; y = 2;
 
-julia> x > y ? println("x is larger") : println("y is larger")
-y is larger
+julia> x > y ? println("x is larger") : println("x is not larger")
+x is not larger
+
+julia> x > y ? "x is larger" : x == y ? "x and y are equal" : "y is larger"
+"y is larger"
 ```
 """
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