diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2039036..33a11cd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -31,3 +31,7 @@ required-features = ["text"]
 [[example]]
 name = "udiff"
 required-features = ["text"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "close-matches"
+required-features = ["text"]
diff --git a/examples/close-matches.rs b/examples/close-matches.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b88c9a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/close-matches.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+use similar::text::get_close_matches;
+
+fn main() {
+    let words = vec![
+        "apple",
+        "appu",
+        "appal",
+        "apparitor",
+        "beer",
+        "beeb",
+        "beeline",
+    ];
+    println!("{:?}", get_close_matches("app", &words, 3, 0.7));
+    println!("{:?}", get_close_matches("bee", &words, 3, 0.7));
+}