Regex

Matches only English words separated by hyphen and space, and ignores any other characters

text = "This is a sam-ple text, with punctuation and 123 num-bers, co- llor and hel- lo"

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print(matches)  # ['sam-ple', 'num-bers', 'co-llor', 'hel-lo']

\b[a-zA-Z]+(?:-[a-zA-Z]+)+\b

Match only words separated by hyphen and space in the middle

text = "This is a test of hyphen- ated words. Here is another word: com- puter."

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# ['hyphen- ated']

\b[a-zA-Z]+- [a-zA-Z]+\b
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\b[a-zA-Z]+-[ ]?[a-zA-Z]+\b