How to Use cherry picker in a Sentence

cherry picker

noun

• The bird is then brought down aboard the cherry picker.
  — Fox News, 8 July 2019
• 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
• The victim was pinned between the Ditch Witch and cherry picker.
  — Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
• Officer Mays calmly rode the cherry picker to the ground to vacuum the rest of the swarm.
  — Ben Kesling, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Like Simmons, Bryant had been hired by AppleOne to drive a cherry picker.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Workers in hydraulic cranes, or cherry pickers, were sent high up the poles to refasten the nets.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2018
• Its public works department sent out a cherry picker and Wurst climbed in.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 21 June 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Workers in cherry pickers adorned the majestic tree with sparkling lights and gold orb ornaments.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
• 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
• Officers were also lifted onto the roof in a cherry picker.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
• 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
• The fan palm is pockmarked with holes — some created by birds, others by humans climbing it to remove the fronds (Exposition Park now uses a cherry picker to reduce stress on the old-timer).
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• 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
• Firefighters arriving at their window with a cherry picker bucket brought them to safety.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• After attempting to escape on their own, Cohen said he, his wife and two neighbors were rescued from their balcony by fire rescue teams who used a cherry picker bucket, the Herald reported.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 24 June 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
• Trowland and fellow protester Marcus Decker were reportedly arrested after being brought down from the bridge on a cherry picker and charged with conspiracy to commit a public nuisance.
  — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024