diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
index d13fc3d9208d34..71026370be8051 100644
--- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
@@ -1719,10 +1719,10 @@ expression support in the :mod:`re` module).
 
 .. method:: str.join(iterable)
 
-   Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the
-   :term:`iterable` *iterable*.  A :exc:`TypeError` will be raised if there are
-   any non-string values in *iterable*, including :class:`bytes` objects.  The
-   separator between elements is the string providing this method.
+   Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in *iterable*.
+   A :exc:`TypeError` will be raised if there are any non-string values in
+   *iterable*, including :class:`bytes` objects.  The separator between
+   elements is the string providing this method.
 
 
 .. method:: str.ljust(width[, fillchar])
@@ -2547,11 +2547,11 @@ arbitrary binary data.
             bytearray.join(iterable)
 
    Return a bytes or bytearray object which is the concatenation of the
-   binary data sequences in the :term:`iterable` *iterable*.  A
-   :exc:`TypeError` will be raised if there are any values in *iterable*
-   that are not :term:`bytes-like objects <bytes-like object>`, including
-   :class:`str` objects.  The separator between elements is the contents
-   of the bytes or bytearray object providing this method.
+   binary data sequences in *iterable*.  A :exc:`TypeError` will be raised
+   if there are any values in *iterable* that are not :term:`bytes-like
+   objects <bytes-like object>`, including :class:`str` objects.  The
+   separator between elements is the contents of the bytes or
+   bytearray object providing this method.
 
 
 .. staticmethod:: bytes.maketrans(from, to)