diff --git a/docs/source/resources/define-metadata.rst b/docs/source/resources/define-metadata.rst
index 63cbb3eb86..e0e5bfff2d 100644
--- a/docs/source/resources/define-metadata.rst
+++ b/docs/source/resources/define-metadata.rst
@@ -1756,11 +1756,11 @@ retrieve a fully rendered ``meta.yaml``, use the
 Loading data from other files
 -----------------------------
 
-There are several additional functions available to Jinja2 which can be used
+There are several additional functions available to Jinja2, which can be used
 to load data from other files. These are ``load_setup_py_data``, ``load_file_regex``,
 ``load_file_data``, and ``load_str_data``.
 
-* ``load_setup_py_data``: Loads data from a ``setup.py`` file. This can be useful to
+* ``load_setup_py_data``: Load data from a ``setup.py`` file. This can be useful to
   obtain metadata such as the version from a project's ``setup.py`` file. For example::
 
     {% set data = load_setup_py_data() %}
@@ -1769,16 +1769,23 @@ to load data from other files. These are ``load_setup_py_data``, ``load_file_reg
       name: foo
       version: {{ version }}
 
-* ``load_file_regex``: Searches a file for a regular expression and returns the
-  first match as a Python ``re.Match object``. For example::
+* ``load_file_regex``: Search a file for a regular expression returning the
+  first match as a Python `re.Match
+  <https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#match-objects>`_ object.
+
+  For example, using ``load_file_regex(load_file, regex_pattern, from_recipe_dir=False) -> re.Match | None``::
+
+    {% set version_match = load_file_regex(
+      load_file="conda_package_streaming/__init__.py",
+      regex_pattern='^__version__ = "(.+)"') %}
+    {% set version = version_match[1] %}
 
-    {% set readme_heading = load_file_regex(load_file='README.rst', regex_pattern=r'^# (\S+)') %}
     package:
-      name: {{ readme_heading.string }}
+      version: {{ version }}
 
-* ``load_file_data``: You can also parse JSON, TOML, or YAML files and load data
-  from them. For example you can use this to load poetry configurations from
-  ``pyproject.toml``. This is especially useful as ``setup.py`` is no longer the
+* ``load_file_data``: Parse JSON, TOML, or YAML files and load data
+  from them. For example, you can use this to load poetry configurations from
+  ``pyproject.toml``. This is especially useful, as ``setup.py`` is no longer the
   only standard way to define project metadata (see
   `PEP 517 <https://peps.python.org/pep-0517>`_ and
   `PEP 518 <https://peps.python.org/pep-0518>`_)::
@@ -1789,7 +1796,7 @@ to load data from other files. These are ``load_setup_py_data``, ``load_file_reg
       name: {{ poetry.get('name') }}
       version: {{ poetry.get('version') }}
 
-* ``load_str_data``: Loads and parses data from a string. This is similar to
+* ``load_str_data``: Load and parse data from a string. This is similar to
   ``load_file_data``, but it takes a string instead of a file as an argument.
   This may seem pointless at first, but you can use this to pass more complex
   data structures by environment variables. For example::