How to Use cherry picker in a Sentence

cherry picker

noun
  • For that one, he was put on a cherry picker and raised 10 feet above the planes, parked on the tarmac.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Its public works department sent out a cherry picker and Wurst climbed in.
    — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
  • Workers in hydraulic cranes, or cherry pickers, were sent high up the poles to refasten the nets.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2018
  • There were squad cars, ladder trucks, school buses and the cab of a cherry picker truck to climb into and explore.
    — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The victim was pinned between the Ditch Witch and cherry picker.
    — Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Workers in cherry pickers adorned the majestic tree with sparkling lights and gold orb ornaments.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
  • And then, finally, a small cherry picker crane from the school’s maintenance staff appeared across the field.
    — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Officer Mays calmly rode the cherry picker to the ground to vacuum the rest of the swarm.
    — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Like Simmons, Bryant had been hired by AppleOne to drive a cherry picker.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Later, Prager strapped herself into a safety harness and was lifted above the cast in a cherry picker.
    — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2019
  • On Monday, workers in a cherry picker used a propane torch to slice a piece of the truss, creating a shower of orange sparks.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2024
  • Police said a 52-year-old man was moving a Ditch Witch in the alley when he was hit by the cherry picker.
    — Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Fire and rescue crews arrived and tried to save people from the remaining portions of the building complex with a cherry picker.
    — Eli Stokols, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
  • Eventually, they and two neighbors were rescued from their balcony by fire rescue teams who used a cherry picker bucket.
    — PEOPLE.com, 24 June 2021
  • Firefighters arriving at their window with a cherry picker bucket brought them to safety.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • Photographers roamed the campus with equipment in tow as cherry pickers and barricades appeared along the complex.
    — Janay Kingsberry, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • In that heist, thieves made off with $102 million worth of jewels and escaped via a cherry picker, with a global manhunt ensuing.
    — Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Footage taken by passerby Chase Williams shows firefighters helping riders off the stuck ride onto a cherry picker.
    — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 May 2026
  • Residents like Barry Cohen, 63, and his wife had to be rescued from their balcony in a cherry picker in the dark.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2021
  • The mayor then boarded a cherry picker and was lifted up to uncover the Satisfaction Way sign.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2024
  • So, Russell, whose wife is a veterinarian, took notes and reached out to the fire chief, who eventually gave the green light for one of his men to go up there aboard the cherry picker.
    — Washington Post, 29 June 2021
  • Ultimately, a cherry picker brought in from Glasgow was used to transport technicians and firefighters to the top of the chimney and lower the man down.
    — Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Roof beams, or trusses, had collapsed at a construction site one building over from the station, trapping three construction workers in the rubble at ground level and three on cherry pickers.
    — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
  • The mural, which is one of the biggest in Georgia, took 250 gallons of paint to complete and countless hours on a cherry picker to cover the building.
    — Leon Stafford, ajc, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Stand-alone scaffolding and an idle cherry picker, essential construction tools in Barlow’s practice, hardly look out of place in this artistic junkyard.
    — Natalia Rachlin, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
  • The man continued shouting while clinging to the founding father’s head until police emergency services went up in a cherry picker forklift and wrestled him off the statue.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 16 May 2025
  • Men in harness can be seen scaling the side of the Fireball to reach riders before firefighters eventually manage to deploy what appears to be a cherry picker to free them.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 4 July 2023
  • After Fiery Plane Crash Photos from the scene show two apparent firefighters standing beside the plane in a cherry picker.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • One worker was in a cherry picker, an elevating machine, when they were stung, the city’s fire department told KPNX.
    — Helena Wegner july 8, Sacbee.com, 8 July 2025
  • Beccuau said the 37-year-old suspect's DNA was recovered from the mechanical cherry picker used in the robbery.
    — ABC News, 3 Nov. 2025

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