diff --git a/spacy/training/example.pyi b/spacy/training/example.pyi
index 48bb4cc75..6025b85e9 100644
--- a/spacy/training/example.pyi
+++ b/spacy/training/example.pyi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Sequence, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 from ..tokens import Doc, Span
 from ..vocab import Vocab
@@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ class Example:
     def get_aligned_parse(self, projectivize=True): ...
     def get_aligned_sent_starts(self): ...
     def get_aligned_spans_x2y(
-        self, x_spans: Sequence[Span], allow_overlap=False
+        self, x_spans: Iterable[Span], allow_overlap=False
     ) -> List[Span]: ...
     def get_aligned_spans_y2x(
-        self, y_spans: Sequence[Span], allow_overlap=False
+        self, y_spans: Iterable[Span], allow_overlap=False
     ) -> List[Span]: ...
     def get_aligned_ents_and_ner(self) -> Tuple[List[Span], List[str]]: ...
     def get_aligned_ner(self) -> List[str]: ...