Doctor Cop, there are examples distributed with the source code. If you grep those for a particular function you can find example usage.

I agree though that including an example snippet for each function or symbol would greatly benefit the documentation and aid in the popularity of the library. Instead of chasing your tail trying to figure out how the pieces fit together, you could see a minimal example of the dependencies for a particular call to work right on the same page as its reference documentation. Instant click, instantly back to hacking.