diff --git a/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx b/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
index d3ed0fd0..192fb0a2 100644
--- a/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
+++ b/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
@@ -27,6 +27,24 @@ def line(Py_ssize_t y, Py_ssize_t x, Py_ssize_t y2, Py_ssize_t x2):
         May be used to directly index into an array, e.g.
         ``img[rr, cc] = 1``.
 
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> from skimage.draw import line
+    >>> img = np.zeros((10, 10), dtype=np.uint8)
+    >>> rr, cc = line(1, 1, 8, 8)
+    >>> img[rr, cc] = 1
+    >>> img
+    array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]], dtype=uint8)
+
     """
 
     cdef cnp.ndarray[cnp.intp_t, ndim=1, mode="c"] rr, cc