diff --git a/sklearn/multiclass.py b/sklearn/multiclass.py
index c09e34b1e9504..78ab288a6aecf 100644
--- a/sklearn/multiclass.py
+++ b/sklearn/multiclass.py
@@ -181,6 +181,22 @@ class OneVsRestClassifier(MultiOutputMixin, ClassifierMixin,
     multilabel_ : boolean
         Whether a OneVsRestClassifier is a multilabel classifier.
 
+    >>> import numpy as np
+    >>> from sklearn.multiclass import OneVsRestClassifier
+    >>> from sklearn.svm import SVC
+    >>> X = np.array([
+    ...     [10, 10],
+    ...     [8, 10],
+    ...     [-5, 5.5],
+    ...     [-5.4, 5.5],
+    ...     [-20, -20],
+    ...     [-15, -20]
+    ... ])
+    >>> y = np.array([0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2])
+    >>> clf = OneVsRestClassifier(SVC()).fit(X, y)
+    >>> clf.predict([[-19, -20], [9, 9], [-5, 5]])
+    array([2, 0, 1])
+
     """
     def __init__(self, estimator, n_jobs=None):
         self.estimator = estimator