cherry-picker

Example Sentences

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The tree, which towers well above houses on the street, is decorated each year with help from a cherry-picker device to reach the higher branches.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024

That’s when Tacoma Power workers hoisted cherry-picker buckets and began slicing into pieces a 118-year-old city landmark — the Tacoma totem pole.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021

A new officer, who seemed particularly confident with the cherry-picker, strapped on a helmet, stepped into the compartment, and directed an operator, who lifted him as close to Tree Man as possible.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2016

McGregor referred to him as a "cherry-picker" — before Alvarez’s junior-middleweight title fight against obscure champion Liam Smith on Sept. 17 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2016

So are the big-stage rock spectacles that the Stones helped pioneer, with inflatable appendages, pyrotechnics or perhaps a cherry-picker lifting Mr. Jagger over the crowd.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2012