diff --git a/docs/topics/request-response.rst b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
index 41df51589..adf3d0f4a 100644
--- a/docs/topics/request-response.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/request-response.rst
@@ -115,20 +115,9 @@ Request objects
         cookies for that domain and will be sent again in future requests.
         That's the typical behaviour of any regular web browser.
 
-        To create a request that does not send stored cookies and does not
-        store received cookies, set the ``dont_merge_cookies`` key to ``True``
-        in :attr:`request.meta <scrapy.Request.meta>`.
-
-        Example of a request that sends manually-defined cookies and ignores
-        cookie storage:
-
-        .. code-block:: python
-
-            Request(
-                url="http://www.example.com",
-                cookies={"currency": "USD", "country": "UY"},
-                meta={"dont_merge_cookies": True},
-            )
+        Note that setting the :reqmeta:`dont_merge_cookies` key to ``True`` in
+        :attr:`request.meta <scrapy.Request.meta>` causes custom cookies to be
+        ignored.
 
         For more info see :ref:`cookies-mw`.