diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index dc20e94..c7d72a3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Version 0.1.4
 -------------
 - Fixed bug in x-axis drawing, spurious rounding
 - Added options to modify global figure properties, e.g. xlim, figsize, etc
-- Updated docs for manual API reference as opposed to sphinx api-doc
+- Updated docs for manually curated API reference as opposed to sphinx api-doc
 
 
 Version 0.1.3
diff --git a/examples/basic_usage.py b/examples/basic_usage.py
index 4039a39..1be6940 100644
--- a/examples/basic_usage.py
+++ b/examples/basic_usage.py
@@ -2,22 +2,33 @@
 
 import shellplot as plt
 
-# x = np.arange(-4, 4, 0.01)
-# y = np.cos(x)
-# plt.plot(x, y, xlabel="radians", figsize=(30, 15))
-# plt.plot(x, y, xlabel="radians", figsize=(60, 20))
-#
-#
+x = np.arange(-4, 4, 0.01)
+y = np.cos(x)
+plt.plot(x, y, xlabel="x", ylabel="f(x)", figsize=(60, 25))
+
+plt_str = plt.plot(
+    x,
+    y,
+    figsize=(40, 21),
+    xlim=(0, 3),
+    ylim=(-1, 1),
+    xlabel="x",
+    ylabel="cos(x)",
+    return_type="str",
+)
+print(plt_str)
+
+
 x = [np.random.randn(100) for i in range(3)]
-plt.boxplot(x, labels=np.array(["dist_1", "dist_2", "dist_3"]), figsize=(40, 20))
+plt.boxplot(x, labels=np.array(["dist_1", "dist_2", "dist_3"]), figsize=(40, 25))
 
 x = np.random.randn(1000)
 plt.hist(x, bins=12, figsize=(40, 20), xlabel="normal distribution")
 
-# x = np.logspace(0, 1, 3)
-# plt.barh(
-#     x,
-#     labels=np.array(["bar_1", "bar_b", "bar_3"]),
-#     xlabel="my_fun_bars",
-#     figsize=(40, 20),
-# )
+x = np.logspace(0, 1, 3)
+plt.barh(
+    x,
+    labels=np.array(["bar_1", "bar_b", "bar_3"]),
+    xlabel="my_fun_bars",
+    figsize=(40, 20),
+)
diff --git a/examples/penguins_eda.py b/examples/penguins_eda.py
index fa05448..b8a7a98 100644
--- a/examples/penguins_eda.py
+++ b/examples/penguins_eda.py
@@ -16,14 +16,13 @@
 # df[["island", "species"]].value_counts().plot.barh(figsize=(30, 30))
 
 df.boxplot(column=["bill_length_mm", "bill_depth_mm"], figsize=(80, 13))
-#
+
 df.boxplot(column=["bill_length_mm"], by="species", figsize=(30, 13))
-#
+
 df.dropna().plot(
     "bill_length_mm", "flipper_length_mm", color="species", figsize=(40, 23)
 )
 
-
 # df.loc[df["species"] == "Adelie"].dropna().plot(
 #     "bill_depth_mm", "body_mass_g", color="island"
 # )