diff --git a/man2/ptrace.2 b/man2/ptrace.2
index f9118bff8..fa5d63f13 100644
--- a/man2/ptrace.2
+++ b/man2/ptrace.2
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ file descriptor.
 The usual symptom of this bug is that when you attach to
 a quiescent process with the command
 
-    strace -p <process-ID>
+    strace \-p <process-ID>
 
 then, instead of the usual
 and expected one-line output such as
diff --git a/man2/setns.2 b/man2/setns.2
index 780cd8043..614cc9cbb 100644
--- a/man2/setns.2
+++ b/man2/setns.2
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ Password:
 clone() returned 3550
 uts.nodename in child:  bizarro
 uts.nodename in parent: antero
-# \fBuname -n\fP             # Verify hostname in the shell
+# \fBuname \-n\fP             # Verify hostname in the shell
 antero
 .in
 .fi
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ set by the child created by the first program:
 .nf
 .in +4n
 # \fB./ns_exec /proc/3550/ns/uts /bin/bash\fP
-# \fBuname -n\fP             # Executed in shell started by ns_exec
+# \fBuname \-n\fP             # Executed in shell started by ns_exec
 bizarro
 .in
 .fi
diff --git a/man7/glob.7 b/man7/glob.7
index d6b52ce66..98e6fc8cb 100644
--- a/man7/glob.7
+++ b/man7/glob.7
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ With
 .I bash
 one can force the classical behavior using this command:
 
-    shopt -s nullglob
+    shopt \-s nullglob
 .\" In Bash v1, by setting allow_null_glob_expansion=true
 
 (Similar problems occur elsewhere.
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index 76f31b048..eb358ade4 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Thus, an application located in
 .I somedir/app
 could be compiled with
 
-    gcc -Wl,-rpath,\(aq$ORIGIN/../lib\(aq
+    gcc \-Wl,\-rpath,\(aq$ORIGIN/../lib\(aq
 
 so that it finds an associated shared library in
 .I somedir/lib