cherry-picker

Example Sentences

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However, the artist failed to get the consent of the building's residents, who are objecting to the content of the piece, before arriving in a cherry picker to paint it on Thursday.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2025

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

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

Frightful did not see the cherry picker until Flip’s head and arm came up over the horizontal girder.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George