Examples of using "Entnehmen" in a sentence and their english translations:
Can you make sense of this poem?
Please take the bread with the tongs.
Please look at the pamphlet for the details.
Please take the bread with the tongs, thank you.
Look up the trains to London in the timetable.
Tom couldn't tell from Mary's reaction how she felt about what he had said to her.
I expect you can tell from the quoted text, but this is a book written in a colloquial style.