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
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
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
So are the big-stage rock spectacles that the Stones helped pioneer, with inflatable appendages, pyrotechnics or perhaps a cherry-picker lifting Mr. Jagger over the crowd.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2012
