diff --git a/docs/examples.md b/docs/examples.md
index 1ee072e..e7f5fae 100644
--- a/docs/examples.md
+++ b/docs/examples.md
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ The tests show a lot of different use cases that are not all covered here.
 ## Exempt a route from the global limit
 
 ```python
-    @app.route("/someroute")
-    @limiter.exempt
     def t(request: Request):
         return PlainTextResponse("I'm unlimited")
+
+    limiter.exempt(t)
+    app.add_route("/someroute", t)
 ```
 
 ## Disable the limiter entirely
@@ -44,10 +45,11 @@ Simply pass `enabled=False` to the constructor.
 ```python
     limiter = Limiter(key_func=get_remote_address, enabled=False)
 
-    @app.route("/someroute")
-    @limiter.exempt
     def t(request: Request):
         return PlainTextResponse("I'm unlimited")
+    
+    limiter.exempt(t)
+    app.add_route("/someroute", t)
 ```
 
 You can always switch this during the lifetime of the limiter:
@@ -76,10 +78,11 @@ Define a function which takes a request as parameter and returns a cost and pass
     def get_hit_cost(request: Request) -> int:
         return len(request)
 
-    @app.route("/someroute")
     @limiter.limit("100/minute", cost=get_hit_cost)
     def t(request: Request):
         return PlainTextResponse("I'm limited by the request size")
+
+    app.add_route("/someroute", t)
 ```
 
 ## WSGI vs ASGI Middleware
@@ -107,9 +110,10 @@ app.add_middleware(SlowAPIASGIMiddleware)
 
 Let's use this route as an example:
 ```python
-@app.route("/some_route/{some_param}")
 def my_func(some_param):
     ...
+
+app.add_route("/someroute/{some_param}", my_func)
 ```
 
 ```python
diff --git a/tests/test_starlette_extension.py b/tests/test_starlette_extension.py
index 0e26baa..c086f75 100644
--- a/tests/test_starlette_extension.py
+++ b/tests/test_starlette_extension.py
@@ -175,15 +175,17 @@ def test_headers_no_breach(self, build_starlette_app):
             headers_enabled=True, key_func=get_remote_address
         )
 
-        @app.route("/t1")
         @limiter.limit("10/minute")
         def t1(request: Request):
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        app.add_route("/t1", t1)
 
-        @app.route("/t2")
         @limiter.limit("2/second; 5 per minute; 10/hour")
         def t2(request: Request):
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        app.add_route("/t2", t2)
 
         with hiro.Timeline().freeze():
             with TestClient(app) as cli:
@@ -208,10 +210,11 @@ def test_headers_breach(self, build_starlette_app):
             headers_enabled=True, key_func=get_remote_address
         )
 
-        @app.route("/t1")
         @limiter.limit("2/second; 10 per minute; 20/hour")
         def t(request: Request):
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        app.add_route("/t1", t)
 
         with hiro.Timeline().freeze() as timeline:
             with TestClient(app) as cli:
@@ -233,10 +236,11 @@ def test_retry_after(self, build_starlette_app):
             headers_enabled=True, key_func=get_remote_address
         )
 
-        @app.route("/t1")
         @limiter.limit("1/minute")
         def t(request: Request):
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        app.add_route("/t1", t)
 
         with hiro.Timeline().freeze() as timeline:
             with TestClient(app) as cli:
@@ -254,9 +258,10 @@ def test_exempt_decorator(self, build_starlette_app):
             default_limits=["1/minute"],
         )
 
-        @app.route("/t1")
         def t1(request: Request):
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        app.add_route("/t1", t1)
 
         with TestClient(app) as cli:
             resp = cli.get("/t1", headers={"X_FORWARDED_FOR": "127.0.0.10"})
@@ -264,11 +269,12 @@ def t1(request: Request):
             resp2 = cli.get("/t1", headers={"X_FORWARDED_FOR": "127.0.0.10"})
             assert resp2.status_code == 429
 
-        @app.route("/t2")
-        @limiter.exempt
         def t2(request: Request):
             """Exempt a sync route"""
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        limiter.exempt(t2)
+        app.add_route("/t2", t2)
 
         with TestClient(app) as cli:
             resp = cli.get("/t2", headers={"X_FORWARDED_FOR": "127.0.0.10"})
@@ -276,11 +282,12 @@ def t2(request: Request):
             resp2 = cli.get("/t2", headers={"X_FORWARDED_FOR": "127.0.0.10"})
             assert resp2.status_code == 200
 
-        @app.route("/t3")
-        @limiter.exempt
         async def t3(request: Request):
             """Exempt an async route"""
             return PlainTextResponse("test")
+        
+        limiter.exempt(t3)
+        app.add_route("/t3", t3)
 
         with TestClient(app) as cli:
             resp = cli.get("/t3", headers={"X_FORWARDED_FOR": "127.0.0.10"})