diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/commands/shell.py b/lib/ansible/modules/commands/shell.py
index dd97653c9a2..264f373bba4 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/commands/shell.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/commands/shell.py
@@ -119,6 +119,12 @@ EXAMPLES = '''
   args:
     executable: /usr/bin/expect
   delegate_to: localhost
+
+# Disabling warnings
+- name: Using curl to connect to a host via SOCKS proxy (unsupported in uri). Ordinarily this would throw a warning.
+  shell: curl --socks5 localhost:9000 http://www.ansible.com
+  args:
+    warn: False
 '''
 
 RETURN = '''