diff --git a/doc/api/util.md b/doc/api/util.md
index c9ba27fc39f4c4..801e668ec3106f 100644
--- a/doc/api/util.md
+++ b/doc/api/util.md
@@ -1187,13 +1187,9 @@ added: v8.3.0
 An implementation of the [WHATWG Encoding Standard][] `TextDecoder` API.
 
 ```js
-const decoder = new TextDecoder('shift_jis');
-let string = '';
-let buffer;
-while (buffer = getNextChunkSomehow()) {
-  string += decoder.decode(buffer, { stream: true });
-}
-string += decoder.decode(); // end-of-stream
+const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+const u8arr = new Uint8Array([72, 101, 108, 108, 111]);
+console.log(decoder.decode(u8arr)); // Hello
 ```
 
 ### WHATWG supported encodings