I've added a minimal example to the top of mh-alias.man.

(I have no idea to what "In match, a trailing "*" on an alias will
match just about anything appropriate." applies. I actually don't
know what it means, either.)

diff --git a/man/mh-alias.man b/man/mh-alias.man
index 9a7776eb..a42b5fe8 100644
--- a/man/mh-alias.man
+++ b/man/mh-alias.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MH-ALIAS %manext5% "November 15, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MH-ALIAS %manext5% "March 20, 2017" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -6,6 +6,22 @@
 mh-alias \- format of nmh alias files
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 .PP
+In its simplest form, an
+.B nmh
+alias file can contain lines like the following:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+.I auser
+.B :
+.I \*(lqA. B. User\*(rq <[email protected]>
+.RE
+.sp
+.RS 5
+.I cuser
+.B :
+.I C User <[email protected]>
+.RE
+.PP
 Each line of an
 .B nmh
 alias file takes one of the following forms:

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