diff --git a/content/en/functions/slice.md b/content/en/functions/slice.md
index 0710d5e40..24b717128 100644
--- a/content/en/functions/slice.md
+++ b/content/en/functions/slice.md
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ toc: false
 One use case is the concatenation of elements in combination with the [`delimit` function][]:
 
 {{< code file="slice.html" >}}
-{{ delimit (slice "foo" "bar" "buzz") ", " }}
+{{ $sliceOfStrings := slice "foo" "bar" "buzz" }}
+<!-- returns the slice [ "foo", "bar", "buzz"] -->
+{{ delimit ($sliceOfStrings) ", " }}
 <!-- returns the string "foo, bar, buzz" -->
 {{< /code >}}