diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/accessors.py b/pandas/core/indexes/accessors.py
index 08d4de972bc06..d7b4ea63cd48c 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/accessors.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/accessors.py
@@ -237,14 +237,30 @@ def to_pytimedelta(self):
     @property
     def components(self):
         """
-        Return a dataframe of the components (days, hours, minutes,
-        seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds) of the Timedeltas.
+        Return a Dataframe of the components of the Timedeltas.
 
         Returns
         -------
-        a DataFrame
+        DataFrame
 
-        """
+        Examples
+        --------
+        >>> s = pd.Series(pd.to_timedelta(np.arange(5), unit='s'))
+        >>> s
+        0   00:00:00
+        1   00:00:01
+        2   00:00:02
+        3   00:00:03
+        4   00:00:04
+        dtype: timedelta64[ns]
+        >>> s.dt.components
+           days  hours  minutes  seconds  milliseconds  microseconds  nanoseconds
+        0     0      0        0        0             0             0            0
+        1     0      0        0        1             0             0            0
+        2     0      0        0        2             0             0            0
+        3     0      0        0        3             0             0            0
+        4     0      0        0        4             0             0            0
+        """  # noqa: E501
         return self._get_values().components.set_index(self.index)
 
     @property