How to Use cherry picker in a Sentence
cherry picker
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The bird is then brought down aboard the cherry picker.
—Fox News, 8 July 2019
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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
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The victim was pinned between the Ditch Witch and cherry picker.
—Lavendrick Smith, Dallas News, 8 Jan. 2020
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Officer Mays calmly rode the cherry picker to the ground to vacuum the rest of the swarm.
—Ben Kesling, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
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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
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Like Simmons, Bryant had been hired by AppleOne to drive a cherry picker.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2022
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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
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Workers in hydraulic cranes, or cherry pickers, were sent high up the poles to refasten the nets.
—John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2018
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Its public works department sent out a cherry picker and Wurst climbed in.
—Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Workers in cherry pickers adorned the majestic tree with sparkling lights and gold orb ornaments.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2018
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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
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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
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Officers were also lifted onto the roof in a cherry picker.
—Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2021
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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
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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
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Firefighters arriving at their window with a cherry picker bucket brought them to safety.
—Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
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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
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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
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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
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