diff --git a/doc/api/webstreams.md b/doc/api/webstreams.md
index 3c94158b0ce6be..7fd3cb71ed7f01 100644
--- a/doc/api/webstreams.md
+++ b/doc/api/webstreams.md
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ async function* asyncIterableGenerator() {
 
 const stream = ReadableStream.from(asyncIterableGenerator());
 
-stream.pipeTo(createWritableStreamSomehow());
+await stream.pipeTo(createWritableStreamSomehow());
 ```
 
 ```cjs