diff --git a/doc/src/cursor.rst b/doc/src/cursor.rst
index a0d66bc0..a998b3c3 100644
--- a/doc/src/cursor.rst
+++ b/doc/src/cursor.rst
@@ -208,6 +208,14 @@ The ``cursor`` class
         Parameters are bounded to the query using the same rules described in
         the `~cursor.execute()` method.
 
+        .. code:: python
+
+            >>> nums = ((1,), (5,), (10,))
+            >>> cur.executemany("INSERT INTO test (num) VALUES (%s)", nums)
+
+            >>> tuples = ((123, "foo"), (42, "bar"), (23, "baz"))
+            >>> cur.executemany("INSERT INTO test (num, data) VALUES (%s, %s)", tuples)
+
         .. warning::
             In its current implementation this method is not faster than
             executing `~cursor.execute()` in a loop. For better performance
diff --git a/doc/src/extras.rst b/doc/src/extras.rst
index 96f801ba..083379b9 100644
--- a/doc/src/extras.rst
+++ b/doc/src/extras.rst
@@ -1029,6 +1029,14 @@ parameters.  By reducing the number of server roundtrips the performance can be
 
 .. autofunction:: execute_batch
 
+    .. code:: python
+
+        >>> nums = ((1,), (5,), (10,))
+        >>> execute_batch(cur, "INSERT INTO test (num) VALUES (%s)", nums)
+
+        >>> tuples = ((123, "foo"), (42, "bar"), (23, "baz"))
+        >>> execute_batch(cur, "INSERT INTO test (num, data) VALUES (%s, %s)", tuples)
+
     .. versionadded:: 2.7
 
 .. note::