diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
index 74bbc28a73a..73cc38a8304 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-dev.rst
@@ -169,6 +169,7 @@ operations::
     asyncio.async(test())
     loop.run_forever()
     print("Pending tasks at exit: %s" % asyncio.Task.all_tasks(loop))
+    loop.close()
 
 Expected output::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
index 22733c1adbf..b5ffdbab9be 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-stream.rst
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ Simple example querying HTTP headers of the URL passed on the command line::
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     task = asyncio.async(print_http_headers(url))
     loop.run_until_complete(task)
+    loop.close()
 
 Usage::
 
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index 81372c52f7c..8630f8262d1 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ Example chaining coroutines::
 
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(print_sum(1, 2))
+    loop.close()
 
 ``compute()`` is chained to ``print_sum()``: ``print_sum()`` coroutine waits
 until ``compute()`` is completed before returing its result.
@@ -234,6 +235,7 @@ Example combining a :class:`Future` and a :ref:`coroutine function
     asyncio.Task(slow_operation(future))
     loop.run_until_complete(future)
     print(future.result())
+    loop.close()
 
 The coroutine function is responsible of the computation (which takes 1 second)
 and it stores the result into the future. The
@@ -354,6 +356,7 @@ Example executing 3 tasks (A, B, C) in parallel::
 
     loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))
+    loop.close()
 
 Output::