cherry-picker
Example Sentences
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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
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
More recently, people have tried cherry-picker cranes to access the canopy, or even floating purple helium balloons or hurling clods of mud into the air to provoke them into the open.
From BBC • Jul. 22, 2015
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