diff --git a/doc/api/buffer.md b/doc/api/buffer.md
index 9111e552202f49..d2beb06f593d46 100644
--- a/doc/api/buffer.md
+++ b/doc/api/buffer.md
@@ -730,6 +730,14 @@ added: v0.1.101
 
 Returns `true` if `obj` is a `Buffer`, `false` otherwise.
 
+```js
+Buffer.isBuffer(Buffer.alloc(10)); // true
+Buffer.isBuffer(Buffer.from('foo')); // true
+Buffer.isBuffer('a string'); // false
+Buffer.isBuffer([]); // false
+Buffer.isBuffer(new Uint8Array(1024)); // false
+```
+
 ### Static method: `Buffer.isEncoding(encoding)`
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