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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ A low-level async HTTP library.
 * SSL verification. (Done)
 * Proxy support. (Not done)
 * HTTP/2 support. (Not done)
-* Support *both* async and sync operations. (Sync will be lightweight shim on top of async. Not done.)
+* Support *both* async and sync operations. (Done.)
 
 ## Motivation
 
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ async for part in response.raw():
     ...
 ```
 
+Thread-synchronous requests:
+
+```python
+http = httpcore.SyncConnectionPool()
+response = http.request('GET', 'http://example.com')
+assert response.status_code == 200
+assert response.body == b'Hello, world'
+```
+
 ## Building a Gateway Server
 
 The level of abstraction fits in really well if you're just writing at