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
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
