diff --git a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_divider.py b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_divider.py
index 04028d541629..523f4a5824ae 100644
--- a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_divider.py
+++ b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_divider.py
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 Demo Axes Divider
 =================
 
+Axes divider to calculate location of axes and
+create a divider for them using exisiting axes instances.
 """
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
diff --git a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid.py b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid.py
index 1670111df01e..44a70a90c931 100644
--- a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid.py
+++ b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Demo Axes Grid
 ==============
 
+Grid of 2x2 images with single or own colorbar.
 """
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid
diff --git a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid2.py b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid2.py
index 0c2b49f21e48..26752dd0d5a4 100644
--- a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid2.py
+++ b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_grid2.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Demo Axes Grid2
 ===============
 
+Grid of images with shared xaxis and yaxis.
 """
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 import ImageGrid
diff --git a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_hbox_divider.py b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_hbox_divider.py
index 544d50d6bfef..31dbfe4f1d9a 100644
--- a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_hbox_divider.py
+++ b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_hbox_divider.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Demo Axes Hbox Divider
 ======================
 
+Hbox Divider to arrange subplots.
 """
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
diff --git a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_rgb.py b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_rgb.py
index 9854de162410..1fcc2cee66bb 100644
--- a/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_rgb.py
+++ b/examples/axes_grid1/demo_axes_rgb.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Demo Axes RGB
 =============
 
+RGBAxes to show RGB composite images.
 """
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt