diff --git a/library/uri b/library/uri
index 7b0b28f6ab5..ddb2ffa685c 100644
--- a/library/uri
+++ b/library/uri
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ options:
     aliases: []
   dest:
     description:
-      - path of where to download the file to (if desired).
-      - If I(dest) is a directory, the basename of the file on the remote server will be used.
+      - path of where to download the file to (if desired). If I(dest) is a directory, the basename of the file on the remote server will be used.
     required: false
     default: null
   user:
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ options:
     default: null
   body:
     description:
-      - The body of the http request/response to the webservice.
+      - The body of the http request/response to the web service.
     required: false
     default: null
   method:
@@ -75,7 +74,7 @@ options:
       - Whether or not to return the body of the request as a "content" key in the dictionary result.
     required: false
     choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
-    default: no
+    default: "no"
   force_basic_auth:
     description:
       - httplib2, the library used by the uri module only sends authentication information when a webservice
@@ -84,13 +83,13 @@ options:
         upon initial request.
     required: false
     choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
-    default: no
+    default: "no"
   follow_redirects:
     description:
       - Whether or not the URI module should follow all redirects.
     required: false
     choices: [ "yes", "no" ]
-    default: no
+    default: "no"
   creates:
     description:
       - a filename, when it already exists, this step will not be run.
@@ -112,6 +111,37 @@ options:
     description:
       - all arguments accepted by the M(file) module also work here
     required: false
+examples:
+   - code: "uri: url=http://www.awesome.com"
+     description: "Check that you can connect (GET) to a page and it returns a status 200"
+
+   - code: | 
+           action: uri url=http://www.awesome.com return_content=yes
+           register: webpage
+
+           action: fail
+           when_string: '"AWESOME" not in "${webpage.content}"'
+
+     description: Check that a page returns a status 200 and fail if the word AWESOME is not in the page contents.
+
+   - code: |
+           action: >
+                   uri url=https://your.jira.server.com/rest/api/2/issue/ 
+                   method=POST user=your_username password=your_pass 
+                   body='$FILE(issue.json)' force_basic_auth=yes 
+                   status_code=201 HEADER_Content-Type="application/json"  
+     description: "Create a JIRA issue."
+
+   - code: |
+           action: > 
+                   uri url=https://your.form.based.auth.app.com/index.php 
+                   method=POST body="name=your_username&password=your_password&enter=Sign%20in" 
+                   status_code=302 HEADER_Content-Type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+           register: login
+
+           action: uri url=https://your.form.based.auth.app.com/dashboard.php method=GET return_content=yes HEADER_Cookie="${login.set_cookie}"
+     description: "Login to a form based webpage, then use the cookie that got returned to access the app in later tasks."
+
 # informational: requirements for nodes
 requirements: [ urlparse, httplib2 ]
 author: Romeo Theriault