cherry-picker
Example Sentences
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He said he would have liked to see the council consider closing the road at night or using a cherry-picker to carry out the stonework improvements.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
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
Along Tripoli Street, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, a municipal work crew with a cherry-picker was methodically taking down the posters of Muammar el-Qaddafi that hung from every lamppost.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 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
