cherry-picker
Example Sentences
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A council contractor has been verbally abused and says his cherry-picker was damaged as he tried to remove Saltire flags from lampposts in Stenhousemuir.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2025
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
Williams walked over to a folding table filled with seating charts and eased into a chair, entirely unfazed by the beeping of a cherry-picker or the electricians rigging lights overhead.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2016
Usually, there is not a ladder around, so somebody calls the elite Emergency Services Unit, which puts a man up in a cherry-picker to do the job.
From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2011
