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
The officer alternated between orders and pleads, his cherry-picker crawling more slowly than Tree Man could climb.
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
But that day hadn’t yet arrived when the cherry-picker made its way down Misurata’s Tripoli Street.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2016
