diff --git a/doc/api/path.md b/doc/api/path.md
index ab6039206fbd91..4a1cc8e8990717 100644
--- a/doc/api/path.md
+++ b/doc/api/path.md
@@ -18,9 +18,7 @@ on which a Node.js application is running. Specifically, when running on a
 Windows operating system, the `path` module will assume that Windows-style
 paths are being used.
 
-For example, using the `path.basename()` function with the Windows file path
-`C:\temp\myfile.html`, will yield different results when running on POSIX than
-when run on Windows:
+So using `path.basename()` might yield different results on POSIX and Windows:
 
 On POSIX: