cherry-picker
Example Sentences
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A bucket truck, also known as a cherry picker, is a vehicle equipped with a hydraulic lift system and an extendable arm that ends in a bucket where a person can stand.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2025
On Monday, following the first work in Richmond, media outlets published pictures of two men in a cherry picker - a mechanical platform at the end of a hydraulic lifting system.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024
A temporary causeway opened less than two weeks after the storm, allowing a convoy of electrical companies’ cherry picker trucks to reach the island.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2023
With the aid of a cherry picker and several spotlights, workers disassembled the box around 9:30 p.m. to the jubilation of passing motorists on Broad Street who honked car horns and whistled.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022
“Dan,” said Joe Cassini, ‘you can operate the cherry picker, can’t you?”
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
